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Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert
Many philosophers characterize a particularly important sense of free will and responsibility by referring to basically deserved blame. But what is basically deserved blame? The aim of this paper is to identify the appraisal entailed by basic desert claims. It presents three desiderata for an accoun...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36815962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01912-4 |
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description | Many philosophers characterize a particularly important sense of free will and responsibility by referring to basically deserved blame. But what is basically deserved blame? The aim of this paper is to identify the appraisal entailed by basic desert claims. It presents three desiderata for an account of desert appraisals and it argues that important recent theories fail to meet them. Then, the paper presents and defends a promising alternative. The basic idea is that claims about basically deserved blame entail that the targets have forfeited their claims that others not blame them and that there is positive reason to blame them. The paper shows how this view frames the discussion about skepticism about free will and responsibility. |
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spelling | pubmed-99255022023-02-15 Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert Menges, Leonhard Philos Stud Article Many philosophers characterize a particularly important sense of free will and responsibility by referring to basically deserved blame. But what is basically deserved blame? The aim of this paper is to identify the appraisal entailed by basic desert claims. It presents three desiderata for an account of desert appraisals and it argues that important recent theories fail to meet them. Then, the paper presents and defends a promising alternative. The basic idea is that claims about basically deserved blame entail that the targets have forfeited their claims that others not blame them and that there is positive reason to blame them. The paper shows how this view frames the discussion about skepticism about free will and responsibility. Springer Netherlands 2023-01-18 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9925502/ /pubmed/36815962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01912-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert |
title_full | Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert |
title_fullStr | Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert |
title_full_unstemmed | Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert |
title_short | Responsibility, Free Will, and the Concept of Basic Desert |
title_sort | responsibility, free will, and the concept of basic desert |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36815962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01912-4 |
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