The Architecture of Blame and Praise: An Interdisciplinary Investigation

by David Shoemaker

Many philosophers assume that to be a responsible agent is to be an apt target of responses like blame and praise. But what do these responses consist of, precisely? And do they really belong together, simply negative and positive symmetrical counterparts of each other? While there has been a lot of philosophical work on the nature of blame over the past 15 years--yielding multiple conflicting theories--there has been little on the nature of praise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198915837
• ISBN13: 9780198915836
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages