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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: architecture of blame and praise
    sub title: an interdisciplinary investigation
  name:
    name part: Shoemaker, David
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 185 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Many philosophers assume that to be a responsible agent is to be an apt target of responses like blame and praise. But what do these responses consist of, precisely? And do they really belong together, simply negative and positive symmetrical counterparts of each other? While there has been a lot of philosophical work on the nature of blame over the past fifteen years, yielding multiple conflicting theories, there has been little on the nature of praise. Indeed, those few who have investigated praise, including both philosophers and psychologists, have concluded that it is quite different in some respects than blame, and that the two in fact may not be symmetrical counterparts at all. In this book, David Shoemaker offers the first detailed deep-dive into the complicated nature of blame and praise, teasing out their many varieties while defending a general symmetry between them. The book provides a thorough normative grounding for the many types and modes of blame and praise, albeit one that never appeals to desert or the metaphysics of free will. The volume draws from moral philosophy, moral psychology, the philosophy and psychology of humor, the psychology of personality disorders and experimental economics. The many original contributions in the book include the presentation and defense of a new functionalist theory of the entire interpersonal blame and praise system, the revelation of a heretofore unrecognized kind of blame, a discussion of how the capacities and impairments of narcissists tell an important story about the symmetrical structure of the blame/praise system, an investigation into the blame/praise emotions and their aptness conditions, an exploration into the key differences between other-blame and self-blame and an argument drawn from economic games for why desert is unnecessary to render apt the ways in which blame sometimes sanctions.
  note: David Shoemaker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-178) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Blame
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Praise
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Narcissism
  classification: BJ1535.F3 S56 2024
  classification: 128/.4
  identifier: 9780198915836
  identifier: 0198915837
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240428
    record change date: 20260727195406.0
    record identifier: in00005617101