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    A judgment with the same content as the cognitive element... — Carmelics
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    A judgment with the same content as the cognitive element of a blaming emotion could itself constitute an instance of blame.

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    • 1.Judgments carry their own normative force when they represent violations of moral demands we hold the agent to, as Scanlon's buck-passing account of value demonstrates.
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    • 2.A judgment that someone is blameworthy just is a judgment that they have failed a standard we hold them to, which constitutively modifies our practical relations with them.
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    • 3.This modification of practical relations—not emotional arousal—is what distinguishes blame from mere moral assessment, making the judgment itself sufficient for blame.
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes are grounded in the demand for goodwill, meaning the cognitive recognition of ill will is what triggers the reactive stance, not the emotion independently.
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    • 2.If the cognitive content tracks the morally relevant feature—the agent's ill will or indifference—then the judgment replicates the action-guiding and relational work the emotion performs.
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    • 3.Emotional concomitants are epiphenomenal to blame's constitutive function when the judgment alone sustains the relevant change in the blamer's normative expectations of the agent.
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    • 1.If the force of blame is grounded in the cognitive elements of the emotion, then what does the work of constituting blame is the cognitive content.
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    • 2.The cognitive element can be present even if the blamer is not emotionally exercised.
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    • 3.Emotions are merely concomitant with blame rather than constitutive of it.
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    Thus, in Hieronymi’s view, the normative force of blame must be grounded in the cognitive elements of blaming emotions, since it is these elements that are responsive to and reflect our concern for morality. But if the force of blame is grounded in the cognitive elements of the emotion, then why wouldn’t a judgment with the same content constitute an instance of blame? It seems that while emotions might be concomitant with blame, it is the cognitive element—one that can be present even if the bl
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