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Conditional and Prospective Apologies

Journal of Value Inquiry 48 (3):403-417 (2014)

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Should there be an Apology for American slavery?George Schedler - 2007 - Should There Be an Apology for American Slavery? 21 (2):125-148.details Contemporary white Americans cannot meaningfully ask forgiveness from present-day African Americans for slavery, because such a group apology does not have the mental state needed to communicate regret and intend that listeners forgive the group. Even if the requisite mental state were present, contemporary white Americans are not responsible for the wrong and cannot apologize for wrongs for which they are not responsible. Additionally, such a purported apology is not directed to the victims of the wrong but instead seeks forgiveness (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Against causal decision theory.Huw Price - 1986 - Synthese 67 (2):195 - 212.details Proponents of causal decision theories argue that classical Bayesian decision theory (BDT) gives the wrong advice in certain types of cases, of which the clearest and commonest are the medical Newcomb problems. I defend BDT, invoking a familiar principle of statistical inference to show that in such cases a free agent cannot take the contemplated action to be probabilistically relevant to its causes (so that BDT gives the right answer). I argue that my defence does better than those of Ellery (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 40 citations
The categorical apology.Nick Smith - 2005 - Journal of Social Philosophy 36 (4):473–496.details Much of our private and public ethical discourse occurs in the giving, receiving, or demanding of an apology, yet we suffer deep confusion regarding what an apology actually is. Most of us have never made explicit precisely what we expect from a full apology and therefore apologizing has become a vague and clumsy ritual. Full apologies can be morally and emotionally powerful, but, as with most valuable things, frauds masquerade as the genuine article. These semblances of apologies often deceive and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 12 citations

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