Abstract
In this paper I will argue, following Moody-Adams’s (1994) paper “Culture, responsibility and affected ignorance,” that inability does not excuse in general, but against Moody-Adams I will argue that this is not because of “affected ignorance” but simply because of responsibilities individual agents have by virtue of belonging to and participating in the collective actions of a certain kind of collective. Excusability has been misdiagnosed as depending on whether the ignorance of wrongdoing involved is culpable or non-culpable.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 104-127 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | ethic@ |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- The inability thesis, reactive attitudes, collective responsibility, collective intentionality