volitionalist

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English

Etymology

From volitional +‎ -ist.

Noun

volitionalist (plural volitionalists)

  1. An advocate of volitionalism
    • 2006 December 15, Angela M. Smith, “Control, responsibility, and moral assessment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI:
      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.