Accountability and Intervening Agency
An Asymmetry between Upstream and Downstream Actors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12228145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saba Bazargan‐Forward (0000-0003-4156-5684, corresponding author), Saba Bazargan-Forward |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 110-124 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utilitas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-8208 • E-ISSN: 1741-6183 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820816000224 |
| OpenAlex | W2474725472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Suppose someone (P1) does something that is wrongful only in virtue of the risk that it will enable another person (P2) to commit a wrongdoing. Suppose further that P1’s conduct does indeed turn out to enable P2’s wrongdoing. The resulting wrong is agentially mediated: P1 is an enabling agent and P2 is an intervening agent. Whereas the literature on intervening agency focuses on whether P2’s status as an intervening agent makes P1’s conduct less bad, I turn this issue on its head by investigating whether P1’s status as an enabling agent makes P2’s conduct more bad. I argue that it does: P2 wrongs not just the victims of φ but P1 as well, by acting in a way that wrongfully makes P1 accountable for φ. This has serious implications for compensatory and defensive liability in cases of agentially mediated wrongs
Accountability · Agency (philosophy · Business · Commit · Downstream (manufacturing · Economics · Law and economics · Liability · Political science · Sociology · Upstream (networking · Virtue · Wrongdoing · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Law · Legal principles and applications · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |