Answering for the past
Exploring the conditions of answerability over time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3887686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Ramsoomair (0000-0002-7638-291X, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-377 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217321000081 |
| OpenAlex | W3137127181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Whether seen after a vehement denunciation of one's former values or a subtle change of heart, it is often thought that significant change to one's evaluative character could undermine responsibility for past wrongdoing. In this article, I explore this intuition by analyzing Angela Smith's concept of "responsibility as answerability." I introduce an alteration/replacement distinction to define the limits of answerability over time. These limits are then further qualified by drawing on Delia Graff's work on Sorites type cases to argue that persons are answerable for past wrongdoing if they remain "saliently similar" in some relevant respects
Art · Denunciation · Epistemology · Formalism (music) · Intuition · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wrongdoing · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |