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Omissions and their moral relevance

Assessing causal and moral responsibility for the things we fail to do

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

This book empirically investigates the social practice of ascribing moral responsibility to others for the things they failed to do, and it discusses the philosophical relevance of this practice. In our ordinary practice, we often blame others for things they failed to do. For instance, we might blame our neighbour for not watering our plants during our vacation. Interestingly, the attribution of blame is typically accompanied by the attribution of causal responsibility. We do not only blame our neighbour for not watering our plants, but we do so because we believe that not watering the plants caused them to dry up and die. In this book, I investigate how we make moral and causal judgments about omissions. I discuss different philosophical perspectives on this matter, and I outline to what extent the actual social practise is in line with philosophical theories. weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-9574315-2-3 / 978-3957431523 / 9783957431523

Verlag: Brill | mentis

Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2019

Seiten: 183

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Pascale Willemsen

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