Huzeyfe Demirtas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1312683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huzeyfe Demirtas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huzeyfe |
| FAMILY NAME | Demirtas |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIRTAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8197-5579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference
Drawing a Line
The most popular position in the moral luck debate is to reject resultant moral luck while accepting the possibility of other types of moral luck. But it is unclear whether this position is stable. Some argue that luck is luck and if it is relevant for moral responsibility anywhere, it is relevant everywhere, and vice versa. Some argue that given the similarities between circumstantial moral luck and resultant moral luck, there is good evidence t…
AI responsibility gap
Moral Responsibility is Not Proportionate to Causal Responsibility
It seems intuitive to think that if you contribute more to an outcome, you should be more morally responsible for it. Some philosophers think this is correct. They accept the thesis that ceteris paribus one's degree of moral responsibility for an outcome is proportionate to one's degree of causal contribution to that outcome. Yet, what the degree of causal contribution amounts to remains unclear in the literature. Hence, the underlying idea in th…
Against resultant moral luck
Does one's causal responsibility increase the degree of one's moral responsibility? The proponents of resultant moral luck hold that it does. Until quite recently, the causation literature has almost exclusively been interested in the binary question of whether one factor is a cause of an outcome. Naturally, the debate over resultant moral luck also revolved around this binary question. However, we have seen an increased interest in the question …
Causation comes in degrees
Moral Responsibility is Not Proportionate to Causal Responsibility
It seems intuitive to think that if you contribute more to an outcome, you should be more morally responsible for it. Some philosophers think this is correct. They accept the thesis that ceteris paribus one's degree of moral responsibility for an outcome is proportionate to one's degree of causal contribution to that outcome. Yet, what the degree of causal contribution amounts to remains unclear in the literature. Hence, the underlying idea in th…
Against resultant moral luck
Does one's causal responsibility increase the degree of one's moral responsibility? The proponents of resultant moral luck hold that it does. Until quite recently, the causation literature has almost exclusively been interested in the binary question of whether one factor is a cause of an outcome. Naturally, the debate over resultant moral luck also revolved around this binary question. However, we have seen an increased interest in the question …
Causation comes in degrees
Drawing a Line
The most popular position in the moral luck debate is to reject resultant moral luck while accepting the possibility of other types of moral luck. But it is unclear whether this position is stable. Some argue that luck is luck and if it is relevant for moral responsibility anywhere, it is relevant everywhere, and vice versa. Some argue that given the similarities between circumstantial moral luck and resultant moral luck, there is good evidence t…
AI responsibility gap
Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Free Will and Agency (5 works) · Moral responsibility (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (3 works) · Causation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Luck (2 works)