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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Volitionism"”.
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Choice, ownership and responsibility
… or indirectly chosen it. I call this view volitionism. Non-volitionism, on the other hand, claims that no such choice is necessary for moral responsibility. I propose and defend a non-volitionist account of moral responsibility. I first argue against volitionism by comparing a paradigm case …
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… According to a prominent account known as “volitionism,” responsibility or blameworthiness for wrongdoing requires that the act, or some act in its causal history, was done in full awareness of its wrongfulness. Since such a view makes blameworthiness hard to come by, volitionists have …
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Responsibility for Self: Agency and the Attitudes
This thesis defends the claim that the core idea of moral responsibility is fixed by our best theory of agency. Such a theory concerns the proper conditions of attribution of an attitude or an action to an agent for the purposes of moral appraisal – or what I call the rational relations view. The …