Sorry if!: On Conditional Apologies
Usually, apologies are made by using non-conditional utterances: "I apologize for ruining your evening!" Very little, if any, attention has been given so far to conditional apologies which typically use utterances such as "If I have ruined your evening, I apologize!" This paper a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2021
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2021, Volume: 24, Issue: 5, Pages: 1079-1090 |
| Further subjects: | B
Organizational commitment
B Apologies B Conditional apologies B Speech Acts |
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| Summary: | Usually, apologies are made by using non-conditional utterances: "I apologize for ruining your evening!" Very little, if any, attention has been given so far to conditional apologies which typically use utterances such as "If I have ruined your evening, I apologize!" This paper argues that such conditional utterances can constitute genuine apologies and play important moral roles in situations of uncertainty. It also proposes a closer analysis of such conditional apologies (rejecting some alternative accounts) and contrasts them with unconditional apologies. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-021-10259-4 |