The Cognitive Boundaries of Responsibility (Die kognitiven Grenzen der Verantwortung)

In: Grazer Philosophische Studien
Author: Martin Weichold 1
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Online Publication Date:
14 Jun 2017
In:
Volume 94: Issue 1-2
Article Type:
Research Article
Page Count:
226–267
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000014
Keywords:
responsibility; unreflective action; control; reason-responsiveness; John Martin Fischer

This paper poses a new challenge to control-based theories of moral responsibility. Control-based theories – as defended, for instance, by Aristotle and John Martin Fischer – hold that an agent is responsible for an action only if she acted voluntarily and knew what she was doing. However, this paper argues that there is a large class of cases of unreflective behavior of which the following is true: (a) the persons involved did not have the kind of control required by control-based theories, yet (b) we intuitively take the persons involved to be morally responsible.

In:
Grazer Philosophische Studien
E-ISSN:
1875-6735
Print ISSN:
0165-9227
Publisher:
Brill | Rodopi
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