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Published: 12 January 2012
... also says that it does not employ the notion of avoidability, but argues “directly” that moral responsibility and causal determinism are incompatible from general assumptions about moral responsibility and determinism. The chapter also presents several objections on the claims of Widerker, but agrees...
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Published: 09 October 2003
... into yet sharper relief the dangers of such a solution. This chapter looks at the concepts of objectivity and culpability of inadvertence in the sexual assault debate, along with three theoretical accounts of culpable inadvertence: the avoidability-based account, the customary account, and the indifference...
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Published: 15 July 2004
... Philippa MacIntyre Alasdair Slote Michael Wallace James will responsibility blame praise attributability Wolf real self accountability holding responsible avoidability sanctions 1 This paper originated in an Author Meets Critic session on Susan Wolf's Freedom within Reason...
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Published: 15 September 2011
... is that it is good that wrongdoers recognise that what they have done is wrong, and if they recognise that what they have done is wrong they will almost inevitably suffer. The other explanation is that we have good reason to protect people from suffering by providing them with the opportunity to avoid suffering. We...
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Published: 02 September 2009
... a defender of Frankfurt might be able to come up with a genuine example of an FR-situation, avoidability would still remain a necessary condition for at least one important type of moral responsibility—that of moral blameworthiness. In the course of defending this last claim, the article defends a more...
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Published: 04 February 2021
... to the phenomenon of moral avoidability. Ayer A J Avoidability Moral avoidability Moral disagreement Supervenience of the moral on the non moral Disagreement Descriptivism Metaethics Stevenson C L Blackburn S Domestication Grounds of moral truths Reasons Wittgenstein L Reichenbach H Shafer Landau R...
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Published: 01 April 2025
... of option luck. Three such approaches—the dominant gamble view, the reasonable avoidability view, and the quasi-gamble view—face insuperable difficulties in cases other than dominant gambles. brute luck gambles luck egalitarianism option luck reasonable avoidability Brute-luck egalitarianism places...
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Published: 18 March 1999
...It is argued on historical grounds that two criteria for free will have led people to suppose it must be incompatible with determinism. The first and most commonly discussed of these criteria is the requirement of avoidability or “alternative possibilities” (AP) (that one who acts from free...
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Published: 08 July 2020
... Miners Bad Treatment Bad Treatment 2 Conscription Criminal justice Blast Culpability Scanlon T M Avoidability Gang Gang II Shadow Bridge Wrongdoer on the Bridge Bridge and Sign Kolodny Niko Free Will and Determinism God’s Eye View Self Defence Guilty and Innocent Manipulation...