[New Entry by Chandra Sripada on June 11, 2025.]
What are the conditions under which an agent is morally responsible for some action that they have performed? Put another way, and acknowledging that this rephrasing might be contentious, what are the conditions under which it would be appropriate to praise or blame the agent for something they have done? (Strawson 1962; Wallace 1998; Coates a Tognazzini 2013). An account of moral responsibility supplies answers to these questions. (See the entry on “Moral Responsibility”)….

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