Moral Appraisability: Puzzles, Proposals, and Perplexities

by Ishtiyaque Haji

This book explores a central question of moral philosophy, addressing whether we are morally responsible for certain kinds of actions, intentional omissions, and the consequences deriving therefrom.

Haji distinguishes between moral responsibility and a more restrictive category, moral appraisability. To say that a person is appraisable for an action is to say that he or she is deserving either of praise or blame for that action. One of Haji's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195114744
• ISBN13: 9780195114744
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"