Volume 25, Number 2
August 2023
ARTICLE

In Defense of Moderation: Culpable Ignorance and the Structure of Exculpation

Volume 25, Number 2, August 2023, Pages 227–250
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v25i2.1547
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Abstract

Many of us believe that if some acts wrongly out of culpably ignorance, they are morally blameworthy to some degree. I offer a defense of this view against the powerful “Liberal Challenge” to the position. My defense proceeds by arguing that facts about a given agent’s quality of will can play a different explanatory role in the larger theory of blameworthiness and the structure of exculpation than is often assumed.
Copyright © 2023 James Goodrich
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