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Attributability and Agency: Moral Attributability for Mental States as Possession of Care-constitutive Desires
Title:
Attributability and Agency: Moral Attributability for Mental States as Possession of Care-constitutive Desires
Author:
Yamilkoski, Thomas, author.
ISBN:
9780438133303
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Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (47 pages)
General Note:
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Edward Hinchman Committee members: Stanislaus Husi; Andrea C. Westlund.
Abstract:
A prominent line of thought owed originally to the work of Harry Frankfurt is that it is our identifying, in a certain technical sense, with our mental states which makes these states and the actions which emerge from them our own in a way distinctive of agents. Separately, moral attributability, a sort of responsibility located first by T. M. Scanlon, has recently attracted the attention of many philosophers. In this paper I will argue that we ought to aim to adopt theories of identification and moral attributability such that our capacity for the sort of agency involved in identification is a precondition for our capacity to have mental states attributable to us. Motivated by this point and the prominent line of thought that we identify through our cares, I will develop an account of moral attributability through caring, for which I argue it is plausible such an explanatory relationship can exist between our capacities for identification and attributability.
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School code: 0263
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