
Published online:
19 May 2016
Published in print:
08 January 2015
Online ISBN:
9780262327404
Print ISBN:
9780262028165
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Practical Moral Responsibility Practical Moral Responsibility
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The Substitution Heuristic The Substitution Heuristic
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Moral Responsibility as Moral Appraisability Moral Responsibility as Moral Appraisability
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The Perils of Redefinition The Perils of Redefinition
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Chapter
2 Redefining Moral Responsibility
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Pages
9–38
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Published:January 2015
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Waller, Bruce N., 'Redefining Moral Responsibility', The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (Cambridge, MA , 2015; online edn, MIT Press Scholarship Online, 19 May 2016), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262028165.003.0002, accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
While the most common usage of “moral responsibility” is concerned with just deserts and the desert of punishment and reward, there have been a number of alternative proposals for how “moral responsibility” should be understood. Among the most prominent are accounts that emphasize the utility of punishment, moral appraisability, and the importance of being able to account for or justify one’s behavior. This popular substitution of a related but different question for the hard question of moral responsibility is an instance of a “substitution heuristic” of answering a simpler question rather than struggling with the harder problem.
Subject
Moral Philosophy
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