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Morality and Ignorance

The Journal of Philosophy, 1977
Abstract In this essay, I shall attempt to establish a philosophically interesting connection between obligation and valid morality, on the one hand, and (not) acting out of ignorance, on the other.* Consider the following formal principle: The above principle expresses, in a rough way, the particular connection between ...
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What's Special about Moral Ignorance?

Ratio, 2015
AbstractAccording to an influential view by Elizabeth Harman, moral ignorance, as opposed to factual ignorance, never excuses one from blame. In defense of this view, Harman appeals to the following considerations: (i) that moral ignorance always implies a lack of good will, and (ii) that moral truth is always accessible.
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Hume's Joke: Ignorance and Moral Judgment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Some authors have argued that the nature of one’s moral judgments are fixed foremost by their epistemic circumstances. Epistemic considerations constrain the moral judgments that persons make about their own actions and those of others. If decision-making proceeds from epistemic to other normative considerations, then a person’s judgments about moral ...
Scott Scheall, Parker Crutchfield
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Ignorance and Moral Responsibility

2022
Abstract This book investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. It opens with the presentation of a case in which a tragedy occurs, one to which many people have unwittingly contributed, and addresses the question of whether their ignorance absolves them of blame for what happened.
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DOES MORAL IGNORANCE EXCULPATE?

Ratio, 2011
AbstractNon‐moral ignorance can exculpate: if Anne spoons cyanide into Bill's coffee, but thinks she is spooning sugar, then Anne may be blameless for poisoning Bill. Gideon Rosen argues that moral ignorance can also exculpate: if one does not believe that one's action is wrong, and one has not mismanaged one's beliefs, then one is blameless for acting
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Genetic Ignorance, Moral Obligations and Social Duties

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2000
In a contribution to The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Professor Rosamond Rhodes argues that individuals sometimes have an obligation to know about their genetic disorders, because this is required by their status as autonomous persons. Her analysis, which is based on Kant's concept of autonomy and Aristotle's notion of friendship, is extended ...
T, Takala, M, Häyry
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Rational Ignorance and Political Morality*

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006
People frequently advance political proposals in the name of a goal while remaining apparently indifferent to the fact that those proposals, if implemented, would frustrate that goal. Theorists of “deliberative democracy” purport to avoid this difficulty by arguing that deliberation is primarily about moral not empirical issues.
Guido Pincione, FERNANDO R. TESÓN
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Blame and Moral Ignorance

2017
Can a person legitimately be blamed for acting wrongly when he knows what he is doing, but does not know that it is wrong? Like a good many others who have written on this topic, the author believes the answer is sometimes “yes,” but that whether blame is appropriate in any given case depends on certain facts about the agent’s epistemic situation.
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Moral responsibility and the ‘ignorant scientist’

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2000
The question whether a scientist can be responsible for an outcome of her work which she does not foresee, and so is ignorant of, is addressed. It is argued that ignorance can be a ground for the attribution of responsibility, on condition that there are general principles, rules or norms, that the subject should be aware of.
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Willful Ignorance and Moral Responsibility

2020
Some agents are willfully ignorant regarding the behavior in which they propose to engage; they deliberately forgo the opportunity to inquire into the features that determine the behavior’s moral status. Examples include driving a car across an international border, suspecting that—but not verifying whether—the car contains contraband; buying cheap ...
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