David Shoemaker's research while affiliated with Tulane University and other places
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Publications (6)
In this article, I discuss five major fault lines in the foundations of responsibility theory—a relatively new field—fault lines traceable to P. F. Strawson's groundbreaking “Freedom and Resentment.” They are about the proper methods and content of responsibility theory, and disputes over these foundational issues have led to a messy and wildly div...
This paper is a response to Christopher Bennett’s and Tamler Sommers’ critical discussion of my book Responsibility from the Margins.
In this paper we articulate and diagnose a previously unrecognized problem for theories of entitlement, what we call the Claims Conundrum. It applies to all entitlements that are originally generated by some claim-generating action, such as laboring, promising, or contract-signing. The Conundrum is spurred by the very plausible thought that a later...
In this paper, I investigate the role played by Quality of Will in Michael McKenna’s conversational theory of responsibility. I articulate and press the skeptical challenge against it, and then I show that McKenna has the (untapped) resources in his account to deflect it.
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... Whether to blame is a moral issue because blame is (usually) a harm and is (usually, at least somewhat) voluntary (McKenna 2012;Shoemaker 2020). It hurts when one is blamed and one can often refrain from blaming or cease to blame in many circumstances even if one's initial blame response is involuntary. ...
... 1 For some, blame consists in the judgment that the offender manifested a bad quality of will (Hieronymi, 2004) or deserves to feel guilty (Carlsson, 2017), while for others it requires a disposition to react to an offender's wrongdoing (Sher, 2006), a separate affective attitude like anger (Wallace, 1996;Wolf, 2011), recognition of a change in the relationship between the blamer and the blamed (Scanlon, 2008), or protest against mistreatment and a demand for due regard (Smith, 2013). 2 Still other accounts understand blame in terms of what it does, its role or function (McKenna, 2012;McGeer, 2013;Shoemaker and Vargas, 2021). Blame is described variously as an appraisal (Watson, 1996), demand (Shoemaker, 2015), protest (Smith, 2013), punishment (Smart, 1961), down-ranking (Nussbaum, 2016), prolepsis (Williams, 1995), encouraging or prompting remorse (Fricker, 2016), affirmation of the worth of the victim (Tierney, 2019), and signal of the blamer's commitment to the violated norm (Shoemaker and Vargas, 2021). 3 We think that blame does all of these things. ...
Reference: Letting go of blame
