Borderline personality disorder and moral responsibility

Article Article scientifique Article Borderline personality disorder and moral responsibility eng 2025-01-04 2025-03 author Baehni Agnes Sophia Constance 0000-0002-7605-9346 Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland. agnes.baehni@unige.ch. 915196 Département de philosophie (PHIL1) 3-16 10.1007/s11019-024-10243-6 39754698 1386-7423 PMC11805807 This paper seeks to determine the extent to which individuals with borderline personality disorders can be held morally responsible for a particular subset of their actions: disproportionate anger, aggressions and displays of temper. The rationale for focusing on these aspects lies in their widespread acknowledgment in the literature and their plausible primary association with blame directed at BPD patients. BPD individuals are indeed typically perceived as "difficult patients" (Sulzer 2015:82; Bodner et al. 2011), significantly more so than schizophrenic or depressive patients (Markam 2003). The "responsibility question" for patients with BPD has already been raised (Martin 2010; Zachar and Potter 2009; Bray 2003), but this paper tackles it from a novel perspective. First, I narrow down the category of things for which the responsibility question is specific to individual with BPD. After that, I argue that some of the diagnosis criteria of BPD such as emotional instability or impulsivity might serve as excusing factors targeting the "control condition" on moral responsibility. Second, this paper also considers another widely accepted condition on moral responsibility: the epistemic condition. The view defended in the paper is that the answer to the responsibility question for individuals with BPD, concerning both the control condition and the epistemic condition, hinges on an understanding of their epistemic profile. Aggressions in borderline personality disorders Borderline personality disorder Control condition on moral responsibility Epistemic condition on moral responsibility Dewey 100/501 89 Département de philosophie 3G false Medicine, health care and philosophy 28 1 f0c32485-5b14-4292-b39a-1b87d4bc1fd5 Article (Published version) Public Article_scientifique_from_crossref.pdf 814098 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 61321118bd86a5b638e37b898e66e697eb4f734eab96cbc7203d459c4124862e openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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