One challenge in developing an account of the nature epistemic blame is to explain what differentiates from mere negative evaluation. The difference, without invoking practices or behaviors that seem out place domain. In this paper, I examine whether most sophisticated recent blame—due Jessica Brown—is up for challenge. argue ultimately falls short, but does so instructive way. Drawing on lesso...

On the moral model of addiction, addicts are morally responsible and blameworthy for their addictive behaviours. The is sometimes resisted on grounds that blaming incompatible with treating addiction in a compassionate non-punitive way. I argue consistent addressing compassionately non-punitively better accounts both role addicts’ agency recovery process. If an addict behaviours, behaviour some...

Infertility can be an agonizing experience, especially for women. And, much of the agony has to do with luck: with how unlucky one is in being infertile, and in how much luck is involved in determining whether one can weather the storm of infertility and perhaps have a child in the end. We argue that bad luck associated with being infertile isoften bad moral uck for women. The infertile woman o...