Blaming the victim

Paulina Sliwa

doi:10.1111/phis.12281

Blaming the victim

Paulina Sliwa (Korresp. Autor*in)

Institut für Philosophie

Veröffentlichungen: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Peer Reviewed

Abstract

Feminists critique acts and practices as victim-blaming. Victim-blaming is a moral phenomenon: to call a communicative act victim blaming is to criticise it. It is also a political phenomenon. As feminists point out, it plays a important role in perpetuating oppression. But what makes a communicative act an act of victim-blaming? I propose that victim-blaming communicative acts attribute responsibility to the victim for the wrong in contexts in which such attributions are morally improper. Attributions of responsibility can be morally imporoper in virtue of what they make salient in a conversation. Making salient the victim's conduct and backgrounding the conduct of the perpetrator can run afoul of the duties we have to the victim: including the duty to listen to the victim, to support her, and to hold the perpetrator responsible.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	150-166
Seitenumfang	17
Fachzeitschrift	Philosophical issues
Jahrgang	34
Ausgabenummer	1
Frühes Online-Datum	16 Sept. 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12281
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - Okt. 2024

Fördermittel

This paper has been presented at MIT, the Ethics Research Group Meeting of the FWF\u2010funded Cluster of Excellence \u201CKnowledge in Crisis\u201D, Kings College London, the Serious Metaphysics Group at Cambridge, and the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences at Lillehammer. For helpful comments and discussion, I'm grateful to Anni R\u00E4ty, Alex Byrne, Sally Haslanger, Felix Pinkert, Cosmin Vraciu, Matthew Dougherty, Richard Holton, Rae Langton, Jessie Munton, Tom McClelland, Sophie Dandelet, Andrea Sangiovanni, Kartik Upadhyaya, Katia Vavova, Veronika Lassl, Anna\u2010Sara Malmgren and Grace Peterson for helpful questions and pointers. Particular thanks for detailed comments on earlier drafts are owed to Sophie Horowitz, Gabriel Levc, and Antti Kauppinen. This research was funded in whole by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [CoE 3]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.

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Crane, T. (Projektkoordinator*in), Sliwa, P. (Projektleiter*in), Schmid, H. B. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Kölbel, M. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Werndl, C. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Farkas, K. (Co-Projektleiter*in), David, M. (Co-Projektleiter*in), Means, J. (Projektkoordinator*in), Rasl, M. (Projektadministrator*in), Kallhoff, A. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Schnieder, B. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Pinkert, F. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Grimm, H. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Coeckelbergh, M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Knuuttila, T. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Peschl, F.-M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Vraciu, C. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Benli, A. E. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Dal Conti Lampert, F. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Greslehner, G. P. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Harris, K. R. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Dougherty, M. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Tiisala, T. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in), Kappes, Y. (Wissenschaftliche*r Projektmitarbeiter*in) & Staykov, B. (Projektadministrator*in)
1/10/23 → 30/09/28
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10 Juli 2024
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26 Juni 2024
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Sliwa, P. (Vortragende*r)
28 Mai 2024
Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science

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Blaming the victim

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