This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly
focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational …

One way of being responsible for an action is being praiseworthy for it. But what is the
“praise” of which the praiseworthy agent is worthy? This paper provides a survey of answers …

Historically, philosophers have tended to see moral responsibility as a matter of having a
certain metaphysical status. Strawson shifted the debate by defining responsibility as part of …

What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does.
Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I here argue that by foregrounding cases in …

Praise, unlike blame, is generally considered well intended and beneficial, and therefore in
less need of scrutiny. In line with recent developments, we argue that praise merits more …

Practice-dependent approaches to moral responsibility appeal to our practices of moral
responsibility in order to identify and justify the conditions for holding each other …

Our aesthetic judgments are embedded in and shaped by unjust social orders. But can our
aesthetic judgments themselves—“this is beautiful; that is not”—be unjust? This article …

Whatever one makes of the relationship between free will and moral responsibility–eg
whether it's the case that we can have the latter without the former and, if so, what conditions …

Abstract According to Victoria McGeer's “scaffolding view”(SV)(McGeer), responsibility is a
matter of moral reasons-sensitivity (MRS) which, in turn, requires only a “susceptibility to the …

Theories of moral responsibility have often assumed that praise does not require justification
in the way that blame might. In line with recent accounts, this article argues that praise does …