Sometimes ignorance excuses, sometimes it does not. Whether ignorance can be used as an excuse is controversial. Can ancient slaveholders be excused for owning slaves because they did not know that slavery is wrong? Sixteen new essays explore various ways of defining the line between ignorance that excuses and ignorance that does not.
Philip Robichaud received his PhD from Rice University in 2012 for a dissertation on the epistemic condition. From 2013-2016 he was a postdoc on the 'Enhancing Responsibility' project at Delft University of Technology, before taking up a tenure track position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His current research project entitled 'Nudging Responsibly: The impact of choice architecture on responsibility attributions' is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Jan Willem Wieland is a postdoc in the philosophy department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interests lie between ethics and epistemology, and his current research centers on the epistemic condition. Previously, he wrote a dissertation on infinite regress arguments in philosophy, and he has long-term ambitions to promote analytical skills to the broader public. For his research, he received substantive grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the Research Foundation Flanders.
Show moreSometimes ignorance excuses, sometimes it does not. Whether ignorance can be used as an excuse is controversial. Can ancient slaveholders be excused for owning slaves because they did not know that slavery is wrong? Sixteen new essays explore various ways of defining the line between ignorance that excuses and ignorance that does not.
Philip Robichaud received his PhD from Rice University in 2012 for a dissertation on the epistemic condition. From 2013-2016 he was a postdoc on the 'Enhancing Responsibility' project at Delft University of Technology, before taking up a tenure track position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His current research project entitled 'Nudging Responsibly: The impact of choice architecture on responsibility attributions' is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Jan Willem Wieland is a postdoc in the philosophy department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interests lie between ethics and epistemology, and his current research centers on the epistemic condition. Previously, he wrote a dissertation on infinite regress arguments in philosophy, and he has long-term ambitions to promote analytical skills to the broader public. For his research, he received substantive grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the Research Foundation Flanders.
Show moreJan Willem Wieland: Introduction: The Epistemic Condition
1: William J. FitzPatrick: Unwitting Wrongdoing, Reasonable
Expectations, and Blameworthiness
2: Matthew Talbert: Akrasia, Awareness, and Blameworthiness
3: Maria Alvarez and Clayton Littlejohn: When Ignorance is No
Excuse
4: Elinor Mason and Alan T. Wilson: Vice, Blameworthiness, and
Cultural Ignorance
5: George Sher: Blame and Moral Ignorance
6: Elizabeth Harman: When Is Failure to Realize Something
Exculpatory?
7: Paulina Sliwa: On Knowing What's Right and Being Responsible For
It
8: Gunnar Björnsson: Explaining (Away) the Epistemic Condition of
Moral Responsibility
9: Peter A. Graham: The Epistemic Condition on Moral
Blameworthiness, A Theoretical Epiphenomenon
10: Gwen Bradford: Hard to Know
11: Alexander A. Guerrero: Intellectual Difficulty and Moral
Responsibility
12: Michael J. Zimmerman: Moral Responsibility and Quality of
Will
13: Randolph Clarke: Ignorance, Revision, and Commonsense
14: Neil Levy: Methodological Conservatism and the Epistemic
Condition
15: Matt King: Tracing the Epistemic Condition
16: Jan Willem Wieland and Philip Robichaud: Blame Transfer
Philip Robichaud received his PhD from Rice University in 2012 for
a dissertation on the epistemic condition. From 2013-2016 he was a
postdoc on the 'Enhancing Responsibility' project at Delft
University of Technology, before taking up a tenure track position
at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His current research project
entitled 'Nudging Responsibly: The impact of choice architecture on
responsibility attributions' is funded by the Netherlands
Organization for
Scientific Research. Jan Willem Wieland is a postdoc in the
philosophy department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His
interests lie between ethics and epistemology, and his current
research centers on the
epistemic condition. Previously, he wrote a dissertation on
infinite regress arguments in philosophy, and he has long-term
ambitions to promote analytical skills to the broader public. For
his research, he received substantive grants from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research and the Research Foundation
Flanders.
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