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Reasons-responsiveness, modality and rational blind spots
Many think it is plausible that agents enjoy freedom and responsibility with respect to their actions in virtue of being reasons-responsive. Extant...
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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience
Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss...
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The self-reinforcing nature of joint action
Shared intention normally leads to joint action. It does this, it is commonly said, only because it is a characteristically stable phenomenon, a...
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Why Be Rational?
The question ‘Why be rational?’ could be calling into question a commitment to respond to the requirements of subjective rationality, or could be...
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Do Rapists Deserve Criminal Treatment?
In this chapter, Sifferd analyzes the grounds for moral and legal desert. She bridges the gap between compatibilist accounts of our moral and legal...
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Moral Appraisal for Everyone: Neurodiversity, Epistemic Limitations, and Responding to the Right Reasons
De Re Significance accounts of moral appraisal consider an agent’s responsiveness to a particular kind of reason, normative moral reasons de re , to...
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Why and When is Pure Moral Motivation Defective
Agents sometimes have a final, de dicto desire to do what is right. They desire to do what is right for its own sake and under this description....
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A pluralistic account of degrees of control in addiction
While some form of loss of control is often assumed to be a common feature of the diverse manifestations of addiction, it is far from clear how loss...
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Imperfection, Accuracy, and Structural Rationality
Structural requirements of rationality prohibit various things, like having inconsistent combinations of attitudes, having means-end incoherent...
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Epistemic Blame and the New Evil Demon Problem
The New Evil Demon Problem presents a serious challenge to externalist theories of epistemic justification. In recent years, externalists have...
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Why Mourning for Minks Matters: Rebellious Grief as Practice of Solidarity
The paper advocates the idea of grief as a key emotion for transformation. Following Judith Butler’s concept of grievability, it agues that...
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The independence of (in)coherence
On an increasingly popular view of rationality, rationality is fundamentally about responding correctly to reasons and there is no independent...
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Virtues as reasons structures
There is a certain kind of tension in recent accounts of the role of reasons in virtue ethics between two plausible claims that pull in different...
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Sentimental Reasons
Much recent discussion of love concerns ‘the reasons for love’: whether we love for reasons and, if so, what sorts of things those reasons are. This...
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The Reasons-Responsiveness Account of Doxastic Responsibility and the Basing Relation
In several papers (2013, 2014, 2015) Conor McHugh defends the influential view that doxastic responsibility, viz. our responsibility for our beliefs,...
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Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes
When is it fitting for an agent to feel guilt over an outcome, and for others to be morally indignant with her over it? A popular answer requires...
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Trusting in order to inspire trustworthiness
This paper explores the epistemology and moral psychology of “therapeutic trust,” in which one trusts with the aim of inspiring greater...
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The Promise of Representative Democracy: Deliberative Responsiveness
In the eyes of its citizens, liberal democracy is connected to at least three promises—the promises of autonomy, equality and rationality. To what...
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Anticipating Sex Robots: A Critique of the Sociotechnical Vanguard Vision of Sex Robots as ‘Good Companions’
A number of companies have started to developed humanoid robots that (1) bear some physical resemblance to human beings, (2) have some ability to...
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The significance of conceptualism in McDowell
To explain perceptual justification, McDowell proposes so-called “conceptualism,” the view that the content of experience is all conceptual. Tony...