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  title info:
    title: Ignorance and moral responsibility
  name:
    name part: Zimmerman, Michael J.
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 375 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Michael J. Zimmerman investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. He begins with the presentation of a case in which a tragedy occurs, one to which many people have unwittingly contributed, and addresses the question of whether their ignorance absolves them of blame for what happened. Inspection of the case issues in the Argument from Ignorance, whose conclusion is that, to be blameworthy for one's behavior and its consequences, one must at some time in the history of that behavior have known that one was engaged in wrongdoing, a thesis that threatens to undermine many everyday ascriptions of responsibility. This argument is examined and refined in ensuing chapters by way of, first, a detailed inquiry into the nature of moral responsibility, ignorance and control, all of which play a crucial role in the argument, and then an application of the fruits of this investigation to the question of whether and how someone might be to blame for behavior that stems from either culpable ignorance, negligence, recklessness or the kind of fundamental moral ignorance that often characterizes evildoers. The Argument from Ignorance implies that in a great many such cases the agent has an excuse for the wrongdoing in question. This is a disturbing verdict, and in the final chapter challenges to the argument are entertained. Despite the merits of some of these challenges, it is held that the argument, revised one last time, survives them.
  note: Michael J. Zimmerman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: BJ1451 .Z56 2022
  classification: 170
  identifier: 9780192859570
  identifier: 0192859579
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220617
    record change date: 20230301184611.9
    record identifier: in00004647217