Complications and Defeaters of Standing

Abstract This chapter builds on the conceptual groundwork in Chapter 1. Specifically, it confronts my definitions of hypocritical blame and (dismissing) standingless blame with four complications, the first three of which represent forms of nonparadigmatic blame: (1) private blame, (2) self-blame, (3) third-party blame, and (4) degrees of (standing to) blame. The chapter also examines and rebuts several arguments against the notion of standing to blame and defends a commitment-focused account of what undermines standing to blame.