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Moral responsibility

Moral responsibility

1.[2p]

What are the reactive attitudes responses to?

Correct
The answer is: The quality of another person's will towards us
The answer is: The quality of another person's will towards us
The answer is: The quality of another person's will towards us

2.[3p]

Match each plea to whether it excuses or exempts.

  • He did not see you standing there

  • He was acting under a credible threat

  • She has advanced Alzheimer's disease

  • He is six years old

  • an exemption

  • an exemption

  • an excuse

  • an excuse

Show the answer

He did not see you standing there: an excuse He was acting under a credible threat: an excuse She has advanced Alzheimer's disease: an exemption He is six years old: an exemption

3.[3p]

What is Strawson's argument from the list of excuses?

Correct
The answer is: No actual excuse takes the form "his action was determined", so the practice is not sensitive to determinism
The answer is: No actual excuse takes the form "his action was determined", so the practice is not sensitive to determinism
The answer is: No actual excuse takes the form "his action was determined", so the practice is not sensitive to determinism

4.[2p]

What is the objective stance?

Correct
The answer is: Regarding a person as something to be managed or treated rather than as a party to a relationship
The answer is: Regarding a person as something to be managed or treated rather than as a party to a relationship
The answer is: Regarding a person as something to be managed or treated rather than as a party to a relationship

5.[3p]

What is the objection that unrevisability is not truth?

Correct
The answer is: Even an attitude we cannot give up may present its target as deserving something they do not deserve
The answer is: Even an attitude we cannot give up may present its target as deserving something they do not deserve
The answer is: Even an attitude we cannot give up may present its target as deserving something they do not deserve

6.[3p]

Put the three senses of responsibility in order from weakest to strongest.

  1. Accountability: it is apt to sanction you for the act

  2. Answerability: it is apt to ask you to justify the act

  3. Attributability: the act expresses your evaluative outlook

Show the answer

a, b, c

7.[3p]

What is basic desert?

Correct
The answer is: Deserving blame or punishment just because of what one has done, apart from any good it produces
The answer is: Deserving blame or punishment just because of what one has done, apart from any good it produces
The answer is: Deserving blame or punishment just because of what one has done, apart from any good it produces

8.[2p]

The sceptical arguments threaten attributability as strongly as they threaten accountability.

The answer is: False
Correct

9.[2p]

In which year was "Freedom and Resentment" delivered?

CorrectNot quite: 1962