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Resultant moral luck and the scope of moral responsibility [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Studies, 2023
AbstractResultant moral luck occurs whenever aspects of an agent’s moral responsibility are affected by luck pertaining to the outcomes of their actions. Many authors reject the existence of moral luck in this sense, but they do so in different ways.
Matthias Rolffs
exaly   +4 more sources

Moral luck in investment contexts: We consciously find unprofitable investments less moral. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Moral luck refers to whether an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome they could not influence. In two studies, we investigated the behavioral importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments, which has become ...
Raphael Max, Matthias Uhl
doaj   +2 more sources

Dissolving the Puzzle of Resultant Moral Luck. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Philos Psychol, 2016
The puzzle of resultant moral luck arises when we are disposed to think that an agent who caused a harm deserves to be blamed more than an otherwise identical agent who did not. One popular (but controversial) perspective on resultant moral luck explains our dispositions to produce different judgments with regard to the agents who feature in these ...
Levy N.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Moral luck and the unfairness of morality [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Studies, 2018
Moral luck occurs when factors beyond an agent’s control positively affect how much praise or blame she deserves. Kinds of moral luck are differentiated by the source of lack of control such as the results of her actions, the circumstances in which she finds herself, and the way in which she is constituted.
Robert J Hartman, Hartman Robert J
exaly   +2 more sources

Oedipus’s Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Luck According to Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2023
In mythology, Oedipus is impelled, by destiny or fate, to perform a set of actions. Given that he is not responsible for his fate or luck, is he responsible for his crimes? Can moral judgments be independent of luck, chance or fortune?
Rui Rego
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the Neural and Cognitive Basis of Moral Luck: It’s Not What You Do but What You Know [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Philosophy and Psychology, 2010
Liane Young   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Moral Luck in Contemporary Twelver Shiite Principles of Jurisprudence [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023
The issue of moral luck is one of the interesting and influential issues in contemporary philosophy of ethics. The main question of this discussion can be expressed as follows: Do matters that are beyond the authority and control of the moral agent ...
Husain Rafiei, Seyed Ali Taleqani
doaj   +1 more source

Moral Luck as a Normative Challenge [PDF]

open access: yesГуманитарный вектор, 2020
Chance and luck permeate our lives. They can be explained differently ‒ as the will of gods, the violation of a cause-effect relationship, the distribution of probabilities, a win in a natural or social lottery.
Alexander A. Shevchenko
doaj   +1 more source

Bernard Williams's Different View of Moral Responsibility [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020
The present article studies Bernard Williams's view on moral responsibility using an analytical-critical approach. The discussion of moral responsibility includes the definition, conditions, and problem of moral responsibility.
Fatemeh TamaddonFard
doaj   +1 more source

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