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Flavors of Responsibility

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2016
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Meyer, Susanne
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Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter
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Abstract

In this thesis, I will assess the question of what it means to be responsible for an action, and attempt to unify the various concepts around the conception of answerability. Focusing on that notion, I argue, will gives a better understanding of the other proposed conceptions of responsibility: that of attributability and that of accountability. I will come up with three connected definitions corresponding to these notions, and show that once we refine our concept of responsibility, it is possible for an agent to be responsible in one way, and not another. I demonstrate this contention on the test case of the psychopath.

Keywords: moral responsibility, answerability, psychopathy

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Dissertation
Department
Philosophy
Subject
Philosophy
Ethics
Moral Responsibility
Psychopathy
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13353
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Meyer, Susanne (2016). Flavors of Responsibility. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13353.
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