Sam Mason

Profile

Debates about which actions are morally wrong and why are familiar. But what is it for something to be morally wrong in the first place? My doctoral thesis defends a sentimentalist analysis of the concept and property of moral wrongness in terms of moral blameworthiness. I argue that this account has important consequences for meta-ethical debates concerning the connection between moral wrongness and normative reasons, and the value of deontic moral concepts.