NDLI: Against the Moralistic Fallacy: A Modest Defense of a Modest Sentimentalism about Humor

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Author	Jordan, Andrew Patridge, Stephanie
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	In a series of important papers, Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson argue that all extant neo-sentimentalists are guilty of a conflation error that they call the moralistic fallacy. One commits the moralistic fallacy when one infers from the fact that it would be morally wrong to experience an affective attitude—e.g., it would be wrong to be amused—that the attitude does not fit its object—e.g., that it is not funny. Such inferences, they argue, conflate the appropriateness conditions of attitudinal responses with the fittingness conditions of the associated evaluative properties. Further, they argue that moral considerations are irrelevant for determining if amusement fits its object. We agree that a strong moralizing of humor is wrongheaded and that jokes can be quite funny even in cases where we have a compelling moral reason to not be amused. However, we argue that pace D’Arms and Jacobson moral considerations can be relevant for property ascription. On our view, in order for a joke to be funny, a properly sensitive agent must take herself to have a contributory reason to be amused, and in some cases that she lacks such a reason is best explained by appeal to moral considerations. We use this constraint as the basis of what we call our modest proposal for a modest sentimentalism.
Starting Page	83
Ending Page	94
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13862820
Journal	Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728447
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-02-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ethics Metaethics Sentimentalism Aesthetics Humor Ontology Political Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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