Criticism and blame in action and assertion

C Kelp, M Simion - The Journal of Philosophy, 2017 - JSTOR
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When we do break the rules, we are criticizable for breaking them. Sometimes, we are even
deserving of blame. However, the latter is not always the case. Often enough, we violate
rules and still walk free of blame. The compulsive and small children are paradigm cases of
blameless violators of norms. Although it is widely accepted that norms can be violated
blamelessly, and although there is a pretty reasonable understanding of when this happens
implicit in the literature, there are few if any explicit accounts of blameless norm violation. 1 …
When we do break the rules, we are criticizable for breaking them. Sometimes, we are even deserving of blame. However, the latter is not always the case. Often enough, we violate rules and still walk free of blame. The compulsive and small children are paradigm cases of blameless violators of norms.
Although it is widely accepted that norms can be violated blamelessly, and although there is a pretty reasonable understanding of when this happens implicit in the literature, there are few if any explicit accounts of blameless norm violation. 1 This paper supplies one such account. Its first main ambition is to develop a normative framework for action in general, including detailed accounts of criticizability, blamelessness, and blameworthiness (section i).
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