Concomitant ignorance excuses from moral responsibility

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Some philosophers contend that concomitant ignorance preserves moral responsibility for wrongdoing. An agent is concomitantly ignorant with respect to wrongdoing if and only her non-culpable, but she would freely have performed the same action were not ignorant. I, however, argue excuses. I show leading accounts of imply excuses, debunk view responsibility.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2161-2234']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.481