Ways to Be Blameworthy - Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility

Elinor Mason draws on both ethics and responsibility theory to present a pluralistic view of both wrongness and blameworthiness. She identifies three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Subjective Obligation


• 3: Trying to do Well by Morality


• 4: Ordinary Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness


• 5: Praise and Blame


• 6: Excuses


• 7: Exemptions


• 8: Taking Responsibility

About the author

Elinor Mason, Professor in philosophy, The University of California, Santa Barbara

Elinor Mason is Professor in philosophy at The University of California, Santa Barbara. She works on a wide range of issues in ethics, moral responsibility, and feminist philosophy.

Summary

Elinor Mason draws on both ethics and responsibility theory to present a pluralistic view of both wrongness and blameworthiness. She identifies three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly.

Product details

• Authors: Elinor Mason, Elinor (Professor in Philosophy Mason, Elinor (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Mason
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780192843548
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284354-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy