Responsibility: the epistemic condition
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198779667
Date de publication :
22 juin 2017
Dimensions :
24,0 x 17,2 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
622 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Sometimes ignorance excuses, sometimes it does not. Whether ignorance can be used as an excuse is controversial. Can ancient slaveholders be excused for owning slaves because they did not know that slavery is wrong? Sixteen new essays explore various ways of defining the line between ignorance that excuses and ignorance that does not.