volitionalist

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noun

An advocate of volitionalism

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Meanings

nounvolitionalist (plural volitionalists)

plural volitionalists

  1. An advocate of volitionalism

    I hope to have shown in this section that the rational relations account of moral responsibility can license precisely the kinds of “deep” moral assessments that volitionalist accounts purport to justify.

    2006 December 15, Angela M. Smith, “Control, responsibility, and moral assessment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI

Origin

From volitional + -ist.

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