TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bruno, Daniele
T1  - Being fully excused for wrongdoing
JF  - Pacific philosophical quarterly
N2  - On the classical understanding, an agent is fully excused for an action if and only if performing this action was a case of faultless wrongdoing. A major motivation for this view is the apparent existence of paradigmatic types of excusing considerations, affecting fault but not wrongness. I show that three such considerations, ignorance, duress and compulsion, can be shown to have direct bearing on the permissibility of actions. The appeal to distinctly identifiable excusing considerations thus does not stand up to closer scrutiny, undermining the classical view and giving us reason to seek alternative ways of drawing the justification/excuse distinction.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12425
SN  - 0279-0750
SN  - 1468-0114
VL  - 104
IS  - 2
SP  - 324
EP  - 347
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
ER  -