RESPONSIBILITY AND MORAL BRICOLAGE

In the long-running dispute about the sort of freedom required for responsibility, participants have tended to assume that they were concerned about a shared concept of moral responsibility. This assumption has come into question recently. A noticeable divide between “Lumpers” and “Splitters” has em...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Eshleman, Andrew S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL)
Repositorio:Dissertatio - Revista de Filosofia (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.ufpel:article/8625
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/index.php/dissertatio/article/view/8625
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Accountability
aretaic
bricolage
pluralism
reactive attitudes
responsibility.
Responsabilização
aretaico
bricolagem
pluralismo
atitudes reativas
responsabilidade.
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Sumario:In the long-running dispute about the sort of freedom required for responsibility, participants have tended to assume that they were concerned about a shared concept of moral responsibility. This assumption has come into question recently. A noticeable divide between “Lumpers” and “Splitters” has emerged. Lumpers defend the traditional assumption that there is one unified concept of responsibility, whereas Splitters maintain that there are two or more concepts of moral responsibility. Here, I offer an argument on behalf of the Splitters that connects a type of value pluralism in normative ethical theorizing with the Splitter’s contention that there are multiple forms of moral responsibility. My thesis is conditional. Insofar as one finds plausible a fragmented picture of the landscape in normative theorizing — what I will refer to as “moral bricolage” — then one has reason to join the Splitters in thinking that the concept of moral responsibility is likewise fragmented.