Open AccessMoral Luck and Deviant Causation
Author(s) -
Bernstein Sara
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
midwest studies in philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1475-4975
pISSN - 0363-6550
DOI - 10.1111/misp.12110
Subject(s) - causation , luck , psychology , social psychology , analytic philosophy , epistemology , contemporary philosophy , philosophy
1 Abstract: This paper discusses a puzzling tension in attributions of moral responsibility in cases of resultant moral luck: we seem to hold agents fully morally responsible for unlucky outcomes, but less-than fully-responsible for unlucky outcomes brought about differently than intended. This tension cannot be easily discharged or explained, but it does shed light on a famous puzzle about causation and responsibility, the Thirsty Traveler.
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