Abstract

Ishtiyaque Haji’s provocative book Moral Appraisability advances an account of the conditions necessary and sufficient for moral praise and blame. Haji develops three conditions: a control, an epistemic, and an autonomy condition. The book naturally divides into four parts with the first three devoted to the aforementioned conditions. A fourth concerns an application of Haji’s account to a range of issues including the appraisability of addicts, problems with cross-cultural appraisals, as well as nonmoral varieties of appraisability, such as legal, prudential, and aesthetic. I shall focus my attention exclusively on the control condition as regards blame.