The Communication Argument and the Pluralist Challenge

Abstract Various theorists have endorsed the “communication argument”: communicative capacities are necessary for morally responsible agency because blame aims at a distinctive kind of moral communication. I contend that existing versions argument, including those defended by Gary Watson and Coleen Macnamara, face pluralist challenge: they do not seem to sit well with plausible view has multiple aims. then examine three possible rejoinders challenge, suggesting context-specific, function-based approach constitutes most promising modification communication argument.