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Resultant moral luck and the scope of moral responsibility
Resultant moral luck occurs whenever aspects of an agent’s moral responsibility are affected by luck pertaining to the outcomes of their actions....
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Graded causation and moral responsibility
Theories of graded causation attract growing attention in the philosophical debate on causation. An important field of application is the...
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A Moral Bind? — Autonomous Weapons, Moral Responsibility, and Institutional Reality
In “Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit” (2022), Mariarosaria Taddeo and Alexander Blanchard...
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A Logical Study of Moral Responsibility
This paper proposes a logical framework for studying the structure of moral responsibility for outcomes. The analysis incorporates two vital...
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A puzzle about moral responsibility
We present a new puzzle about logical truth, necessity, and moral responsibility. We defend one solution to the puzzle. A corollary of our preferred...
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Moral Responsibility, the Author, and the Ethical Criticism of Art
In this paper, I argue that since artworks cannot take moral responsibility, it is impossible to establish any sort of ethical criticism towards them...
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ACT-Endorsing Libertarianism, Constitutive Luck, and Basic Moral Responsibility
Because an agent’s constitutive luck may seem to preclude free will, it may seem to preclude moral responsibility. An agent is basically morally...
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Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit
In this article, we focus on the attribution of moral responsibility for the actions of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). To do so, we suggest that...
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From moral to epistemic responsibility
This paper originally expands the orthodox conception of moral blameworthiness to account for blameworthiness for conduct and outcomes across...
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Answering for Negligence: A Unified Account of Moral and Criminal Responsibility
My aim in this paper is to defend negligence as a legitimate basis for moral and criminal culpability. In so doing, I also hope to demonstrate how...
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Vulnerability, Moral responsibility, and Moral Obligations: the case of Industrial Action in the Medical and Allied Professions
The article addresses issues at the nexus of physician industrial action, moral agency, and responsibility. There are situations in which we find...
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Blame It on the AI? On the Moral Responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors
Deep learning AI systems have proven a wide capacity to take over human-related activities such as car driving, medical diagnosing, or elderly care,...
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“One more time”: time loops as a tool to investigate folk conceptions of moral responsibility and human agency
In the past 20 years, experimental philosophers have investigated folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility, and their compatibility...
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Moral Responsibility for Self-Deluding Beings
In this article, I argue for four theses. First, libertarian and compatibilist accounts of moral responsibility agree that the capability of...
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Not in their hands only: hospital hygiene, evidence and collective moral responsibility
Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are a major threat to patient safety. This paper addresses the following question: given what is known about the...
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How Moral Identity Inhibits Employee Silence Behavior: The Roles of Felt Obligation and Corporate Social Responsibility Perception
As a common organizational phenomenon, employee silence behavior has various negative implications for organizations, making it critical to...
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Making Sense of Vicarious Responsibility: Moral Philosophy Meets Legal Theory
Vicarious responsibility is a notoriously puzzling notion in normative reasoning. In this article we will explore two fundamental issues, which we...
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How stable are moral judgements? A longitudinal study of context dependency in attitudes towards patient responsibility
BackgroundWhether patients' life-style should involve lower priority for treatment is a controversial question in bioethics. Less is known about...
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Human Responsibility for Predation
In Just Fodder , Josh Milburn defends the view that sentient animals have negative rights. Since non-human animals are not moral agents, and can’t...