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Causal Accounts of Harming
Author(s) -
Carlson Erik,
Johansson Jens,
Risberg Olle
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/papq.12390
Subject(s) - counterfactual thinking , harm , counterexample , epistemology , blame , positive economics , philosophy , law and economics , psychology , economics , social psychology , mathematics , discrete mathematics
A popular view of harming is the causal account (CA), on which harming is causing harm . CA has several attractive features. In particular, it appears well equipped to deal with the most important problems for its main competitor, the counterfactual comparative account (CCA). However, we argue that, despite its advantages, CA is ultimately an unacceptable theory of harming. Indeed, while CA avoids several counterexamples to CCA, it is vulnerable to close variants of some of the problems that beset CCA.