Holroyd, J. (2024) The distortions of oppressive praise: challenges for practice-dependent theories of moral responsibility. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 10 (1/2). 1. ISSN 2371-2570
Abstract
Practice-dependent approaches to moral responsibility appeal to our practices of moral responsibility in order to identify and justify the conditions for holding each other responsible. Yet, our practices are shaped by oppressive norms. For example, attributions of praise can be shaped by ableist norms, antifat norms, and norms of toxic positivity. I argue that such cases pose methodological and justificatory challenges for practice-dependent approaches of various stripes. In considering what resources these approaches might have to confront these challenges, I formulate some supplementary norms for theorizing about our practices of moral responsibility and for structuring those practices themselves. This paper makes the following novel contributions: First, it advances examples that show that reactive attitudes can be oppressive irrespective of patterns of comparative distribution. Second, it articulates the implications of oppressive reactive attitudes for a range of post-Strawsonian approaches to moral responsibility. Third, it more fully articulates the norms that ought to shape our responsibility practices and locates them in relation to two recently proposed approaches to moral responsibility, from Shoemaker and Ciurria.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 Jules Holroyd. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | moral responsibility; praise; oppression; practice-dependent theories; amelioration |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2024 16:03 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2024 16:56 |
Published Version: | https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Western Ontario |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217383 |