Ascriptivism
Ascriptivism is the view that human beings are to be held responsible for their social actions.{{cite web |url=http://www.ismbook.com/ascriptivism.html |title=Ismbook.com |accessdate=2008-04-26 |work=ascriptivism | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080509071633/http://www.ismbook.com/ascriptivism.html| archivedate= 9 May 2008 | url-status= live}} Ascriptivists hold that to say 'an action was voluntary on the part of an agent' is not to describe 'the act as caused in a certain way', but to ascribe it to the agent, or to hold the agent responsible for it.{{cite web |url=http://www.hist-analytic.com/Geach2.htm |title=Hist-analytic.com |accessdate=2012-04-01 |work=ascriptivism |author=Peter Geach }}
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Further reading
- {{cite book|chapter=Ascriptivism Resurrected: The Case for Ascriptivism|volume=18|year=2006|pages=19–32|doi=10.1007/1-4020-3982-4_2|title=Action and Responsibility|series=Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy|isbn=978-1-4020-3996-6}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Ascriptivism Defended: The Case Against Ascriptivism|volume=18|year=2006|pages=33–50|doi=10.1007/1-4020-3982-4_3|title=Action and Responsibility|series=Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy|isbn=978-1-4020-3996-6}}
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