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The Moral of Moral Luck

2003
Abstract In 1976, Bernard Williams coined the phrase “moral luck” to refer to the range of phenomena in which our moral status—how good or bad we are and how much praise or blame we deserve—is significantly determined by factors beyond our control.
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Morality and Luck

Philosophy, 1984
Thomas Nagel recognizes that it is commonly believed that people can neither be held morally responsible nor morally assessed for what is beyond their control. Yet he is convinced that although such a belief may be intuitively plausible, upon reflection we find that we do make moral assessments of persons in a large number of cases in which such ...
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Moral Distress, Moral Injury, and Moral Luck

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2016
In “A Broader Understanding of Moral Distress,” Stephen M. Campbell, Connie M. Ulrich, and Christine Grady (2016) build a strong case for broadening the characterization of moral distress as it man...
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Is Consequential Luck Morally Inconsequential? Empirical Psychology and the Reassessment of Moral Luck

Ratio, 2004
AbstractPhilosophical discussions of the phenomenon that has come to be known as ‘moral luck’ have either dismissed it as illusory or touted it as the evidence for doubting the probative value of our commitment to certain widely avowed views concerning interpersonal assessments of responsibility.
Edward Royzman, Rahul Kumar
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Moral Luck and Moral Insurance

Dialogue, 2001
RésuméIl semble injuste, à la réflexion, de blâmer les agents pour les mauvaises conséquences non voulues de leurs actions. Le présent article montre au contraire que la pratique de blâmer les agents d'une façon différente en raison de circonstances pourtant fortuites est bel et bien juste après tout.
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Moral Responsibility and "Moral Luck"

The Philosophical Review, 1995
This paper has two purposes. The first (part 1) is to defend a distinctive account of moral responsibility; the second (part 2), to argue that "moral luck," understood as a susceptibility of moral desert to lucky or unlucky outcomes, does not exist. The strategy will be to show that if moral responsibility is correctly understood, the phenomena that ...
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The inescapability of moral luck

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2021
I argue that any account attempting to do away with resultant or circumstantial moral luck is inconsistent with a natural response to the problem of constitutive moral luck. It is plausible to think that we sometimes contribute to the formation of our characters in such a way as to mitigate our constitutive moral luck at later times.
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Moral Luck

Abstract The problem of moral luck arises due to a particular tension in thought. On the one hand, many seem readily inclined to endorse the principle that moral responsibility—that is, one’s praiseworthiness or blameworthiness—cannot be affected by luck—that is, by factors over which one lacks control.
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Medical Error and Moral Luck

HEC Forum, 2015
This paper addresses the concept of moral luck. Moral luck is discussed in the context of medical error, especially an error of omission that occurs frequently, but only rarely has adverse consequences. As an example, a failure to compare the label on a syringe with the drug chart results in the wrong medication being administered and the patient dies.
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On the scientist’s moral luck and wholeheartedness

Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2020
Alexei Grinbaum
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