Basic desert of reactive emotions |
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Authors: | Zac Cogley |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy , Northern Michigan University , Marquette , MI , USA zcogley@nmu.edu |
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Abstract: | In this paper, I explore the idea that someone can deserve resentment or other reactive emotions for what she does by attention to three psychological functions of such emotions – appraisal, communication, and sanction – that I argue ground claims of their desert. I argue that attention to these functions helps to elucidate the moral aims of reactive emotions and to distinguish the distinct claims of desert, as opposed to other moral considerations. |
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Keywords: | desert blame resentment emotions anger moral responsibility |
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