Bennett, C. (2019) Shoemaker on sentiments and quality of will. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 13 (4). pp. 573-584. ISSN 1871-9791
Abstract
In this comment, I raise a number of concerns about David Shoemaker’s adoption of the quality of will approach in his recent book, Responsibility from the Margins. I am not sure that the quality of will approach is given an adequate grounding that defends it against alternative models of moral responsibility; and it is unclear what the argument is for Shoemaker’s tripartite version of the quality of will approach. One possibility that might fit with Shoemaker’s text is that the tripartite model is meant to be grounded in empirical claims about the structure of encapsulated emotions; but I argue that those empirical claims are not made out, and that regardless it is doubtful whether this is the most helpful model of the emotions to deploy in this context. In contrast, I propose that the quality of will approach is better defended in ethical terms, by reference to the vision of the value of living together as equals (in some sense) that is embodied in P.F. Strawson’s picture of the engaged attitude, and the emotions involved in it.
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Keywords: | David Shoemaker; P.F. Strawson; Emotions; Moral responsibility; Moral appraisal |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2019 11:17 |
Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2021 21:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11572-018-9482-9 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142343 |
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