Indifference as excuse

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
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According to an influential view, ‘the amount of blame people deserve varies with the extent of their indifference’. That is, the more wrongdoers act from a lack of moral concern, the more they would be blameworthy. This paper argues for the exact opposite claim: the more wrongdoers act from indifference, the less they are blameworthy – that is, in a properly interpersonal way.

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Jan Willem Wieland
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