ABSTRACT
This chapter defends the position that emotions can be the proper target of reactive emotions, and that thereby, we can intelligibly hold people accountable for their emotions. After discussing the accounts of the distinctions between moral versus non-moral accountability proposed by Peter F. Strawson and R. Jay Wallace, this chapter presents an argument for how accountability works on both a personal and a moral level, based on Agnes Callard’s notion of co-valuation. The proposal is that the relevant cases of holding morally accountable can be captured by the notion of co-valuational expectations that are general enough to apply to all moral agents. An unfair emotion that reflects a violation of these expectations of basic human regard would count as a proper basis for genuine moral reactive attitudes.
