The question‐centered account of harm and benefit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21364157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Thieme (0000-0003-1538-5639, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 938-956 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Noûs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-4624 • E-ISSN: 1468-0068 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nous.12540 |
| OpenAlex | W4405411344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
The counterfactual comparative account of harm and benefit (CCA) has faced a barrage of objections from cases involving preemption, overdetermination, and choice. In this paper I provide a unified diagnosis of CCA's vulnerability to these objections: CCA is susceptible to them because it evaluates each act by the same criterion. This is a mistake because, in a sense I make precise, situations raise prudential questions, and only some acts—the relevant alternatives —are directly relevant to these questions. To answer the objections, we must revise CCA so that its evaluations foreground the relevant alternatives. The result is a question‐centered account of harm and benefit
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| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |