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Risk, responsibility, and choice : why should some choices justify disadvantage while others don't?
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Hyams, Keith D. (2019) Risk, responsibility, and choice : why should some choices justify disadvantage while others don't? Social Theory and Practice, 45 (1). pp. 21-41. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract20191350 ISSN 0037-802X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20191350
Abstract
Choice-based conceptions of substantive responsibility face a number of powerful counterexamples. In order to avoid some of these counterexamples, it is widely claimed that agents are substantively responsible for disadvantage arising from their choices only when the option set from which they chose satisfied a reasonability criterion. I examine three possible justifications for a reasonability criterion: an agent-responsibility-based motivation, a voluntariness-based motivation, and what I call a ‘denied-claim’-based motivation. In each case, I argue that the putative motivation cannot in fact justify a reasonability condition. I end with some comments on what this result means for choice-based conceptions of substantive responsibility.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Equality, Risk -- Political aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Theory and Practice | ||||||
Publisher: | Florida State University Department of Philosophy | ||||||
ISSN: | 0037-802X | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 21-41 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5840/soctheorpract20191350 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 November 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 November 2018 | ||||||
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