Irrational Blame.
I clarify some ambiguities in blame-talk and argue that blame's potential for irrationality and propensity to sting vitiates accounts of blame that identify it with consciously accessible, personal-level judgements or beliefs. Drawing on the cognitive psychology of emotion and appraisal theory,...
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| description | I clarify some ambiguities in blame-talk and argue that blame's potential for irrationality and propensity to sting vitiates accounts of blame that identify it with consciously accessible, personal-level judgements or beliefs. Drawing on the cognitive psychology of emotion and appraisal theory, I develop an account of blame that accommodates these features. I suggest that blame consists in a range of hostile, negative first-order emotions, towards which the blamer has a specific, accompanying second-order attitude, namely, a feeling of entitlement - a feeling that these hostile, negative first-order emotions are what the blamed object deserves. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:9d35286b-e366-40e6-b906-8b8193f83d7b2022-03-27T00:41:14ZIrrational Blame.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9d35286b-e366-40e6-b906-8b8193f83d7bEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Pickard, HI clarify some ambiguities in blame-talk and argue that blame's potential for irrationality and propensity to sting vitiates accounts of blame that identify it with consciously accessible, personal-level judgements or beliefs. Drawing on the cognitive psychology of emotion and appraisal theory, I develop an account of blame that accommodates these features. I suggest that blame consists in a range of hostile, negative first-order emotions, towards which the blamer has a specific, accompanying second-order attitude, namely, a feeling of entitlement - a feeling that these hostile, negative first-order emotions are what the blamed object deserves. |
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