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This course introduces the concept of moral responsibility, as it is used in contemporary philosophy, and explores the justifiability of the moral practices associated with holding people responsible for their behavior. One crucial question concerns the conditions under which a person can be held responsible for an action. Holding people responsible is not just a matter of making a negative judgment about the action they performed. You might also think that the action must “belong” to the person in a certain way, or that the person must have exercised some control over the action, for example. There is a further question about the conditions under which blaming a person can be appropriate: to be blamed for an action is to be sanctioned in a certain way, which can be unpleasant and even dangerous. Finally, this course will investigate into difficult questions about how, if at all, a person’s social context or bad luck can undermine her moral responsibility, and how, if at all, a person’s awareness of the consequences and the morality of her action can affect her moral responsibility. This course will be taught in English. Close engagement of the assigned texts will be expected from students, along with regular participation in class.

Talbert, Matthew. (2016). Moral Responsibility. Polity Press.

(All other readings will be distributed electronically via Semesterapparat)