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Reasonable Reactions to the Wrongness of Rape

2016; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2727709

1556-5068

John Gardner,

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

The short paper is a reply to bob Watt, who takes issue in an interesting way with the moral psychology implicit in my old paper 'The Wrongness of Rape' (co-authored with Stephen Shute). Watt says that Shute and I make a sideshow of the emotions by holding them answerable to reasons. I show that this charge is false. I show that it is actually Watt who makes a sideshow of the emotions by presenting them as unresponsive to reasons. I also respond to Watt's criticism of the concrete proposal that Shute and I make, namely that rape is sheer use of a person.