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HomeUpcoming EventsSignalling, Sanctioning and Sensitising: How To Uphold Norms With Blame - Adam Piovarchy
Signalling, Sanctioning and Sensitising: How to Uphold Norms with Blame - Adam Piovarchy
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This paper provides a unified account of the nature of blame by taking a broader look at the connection between individual blaming reactions and the moral practices of communities. The methodological proposal is that to understand what blame is, we need to understand what it does, but to understand what it does, we need to understand what problems it helps solve.

This, in turn, requires looking how to develop agents who are competent norm-followers and who are motivated to exercise this competence. The reason blame seems so heterogeneous is that it has not one, but several, (connected) effects: it signals, sanctions and sensitises. Signalling provides assurance that norms will be upheld and enforced. Sanctioning deters norm violations.

Sensitising produces agents who have internalised the norms and who are skilled at complying with them. These effects combine to produce agents who are robustly disposed to uphold norms, which is a very valuable thing to create. This account not only solves a number of puzzles about the nature of blame, it does so while providing a simple and principled story, one which emphasises our nature as norm-sensitive beings.

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  • Thu 29 Aug 2024, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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Level 1 Auditorium (1.28), RSSS Building 146 Ellery Cres. Acton 2601, ACT

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  • Adam Piovarchy

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Philosophy Departmental Seminars

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