The Epistemic Condition for Moral Responsibility. Rudy-Hiller, F. In Zalta, E. N. & Nodelman, U., editors, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, Winter 2022 edition, 2022.
The Epistemic Condition for Moral Responsibility [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Philosophers usually acknowledge two individually necessary andjointly sufficient conditions for a person to be morally responsiblefor an action, i.e., susceptible to be praised or blamed for it: acontrol condition (also called freedom condition) and an epistemiccondition (also called knowledge, cognitive, or mental condition). Thefirst condition has to do with whether the agent possessed an adequatedegree of control or freedom in performing the action, whereas thesecond condition is concerned with whether the agent’s epistemicor cognitive state was such that she can properly be held accountablefor the action and its consequences. While the first condition promptsus to ask “was this person acting freely when she didA?”, the second condition prompts us to ask “wasthis person aware of what she was doing (of its consequences,moral significance, etc.)?”[1]
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	edition = {Winter 2022},
	title = {The {Epistemic} {Condition} for {Moral} {Responsibility}},
	url = {https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/moral-responsibility-epistemic/},
	abstract = {Philosophers usually acknowledge two individually necessary andjointly sufficient conditions for a person to be morally responsiblefor an action, i.e., susceptible to be praised or blamed for it: acontrol condition (also called freedom condition) and an epistemiccondition (also called knowledge, cognitive, or mental condition). Thefirst condition has to do with whether the agent possessed an adequatedegree of control or freedom in performing the action, whereas thesecond condition is concerned with whether the agent’s epistemicor cognitive state was such that she can properly be held accountablefor the action and its consequences. While the first condition promptsus to ask “was this person acting freely when she didA?”, the second condition prompts us to ask “wasthis person aware of what she was doing (of its consequences,moral significance, etc.)?”[1]},
	urldate = {2024-04-10},
	booktitle = {The {Stanford} {Encyclopedia} of {Philosophy}},
	publisher = {Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University},
	author = {Rudy-Hiller, Fernando},
	editor = {Zalta, Edward N. and Nodelman, Uri},
	year = {2022},
	keywords = {belief, ethics of, moral responsibility, skepticism: about moral responsibility},
}

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