Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions

by Derk Pereboom

Book Overview

Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of anger and retribution that arise from ethical considerations and from concerns about free will. The issue is introduced in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 asks how we might conceive of blame without retribution, and proposes an account of blame as moral protest, whose function is to secure forward-looking goals such as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198903782
• ISBN13: 9780198903789
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"