The Protest View of Blame
摘要
This chapter discusses the protest view of blame: the view that what blame is or what explains its point and adequacy can be spelled out by employing a notion of moral protest. I discuss different versions of the protest view and show that they work with one or the other of two understandings of protest: protest is understood either a rejection of claims made by wrongdoing or as a communication of the protester’s moral views. I raise worries about both understandings, especially that both threaten to collapse protest into mere disagreement and are therefore hospitable to blame skepticism. The chapter concludes by pointing out the possibility of moral protest that is not blame and the challenges this raises for the protest view.