Dear all,
This week at the SMG we have Paulina Sliwa giving a talk entitled "Moral Ignorance, Responsibility, and Blame" (abstract below). We'll be meeting at 11am on Wednesday 5th in the Faculty board room. Best wishes, Matthew Simpson Paulina Sliwa - _Moral Ignorance, Responsibility, and Blame_ Abstract: Can moral ignorance exculpate? According to a popular approach to blame, an agent is blameworthy when she fails to be responsive to moral reasons. Moral ignorance generally is the result of failure to respond to moral reasons. Consequently, moral ignorance not only fails to exculpate; it's something that agents can be blameworthy for. My aim will be to argue that this is mistaken. Drawing on parallels to epistemology, I argue that we need to distinguish two kinds of assessment: assessments of responsibility and blameworthiness on the one hand and assessments of whether an agent is morally flawed on the other. -- Matthew Simpson PhD Student in Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
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