T.M. Scanlon's accountability-based view holds that blame consists in revising one's attitudes toward another as a fellow rational agent capable of justification—a disposition with communicative structure at its core.
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Revising one's attitudes(as what blame involves according to this theory)
Changing how you think or feel about someone—for example, losing trust in them or viewing them differently than you did before.
T.M. Scanlon(defender of non-naturalist cognitivism)
A contemporary American philosopher who defends the idea that moral claims are real truths based on contractualist reasoning (what rational people could agree to).
blame(Scanlon's contractualist account)
A reactive attitude directed at the attitudes a person actually holds, not a judgment about whether the person could have done otherwise.
justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.