Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2023
Maggie O'Brien

Pages 90-96
https://doi.org/10.5840/tht20256345
Standing to Blame and Standing to Praise?
Praise and blame are both forms of moral assessment. Yet, the literature on standing has focussed on blame¡ªto blame appropriately one needs standing to do so. Praise has been mostly ignored. This paper argues that the asymmetrical treatment of praise and blame is unwarranted: there¡¯s no good reason to think that we need standing to blame, but don¡¯t need standing to praise. This conclusion is important because it provides a new line of argument for scepticism about standing to blame.