Causation and Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolina Sartorio (0009-0009-3797-6000, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 749-765 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00097.x |
| OpenAlex | W2002873160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this article I examine the relation between causation and moral responsibility. I distinguish four possible views about that relation. One is the standard view: the view that an agent's moral responsibility for an outcome requires, and is grounded in, the agent's causal responsibility for it. I discuss several challenges to the standard view, which motivate the three remaining views. The final view - the view I argue for - is that causation is the vehicle of transmission of moral responsibility. According to this view, although moral responsibility does not require causation, causation still grounds moral responsibility
Causation · Epistemology · Moral responsibility · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
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Judgments of Responsibility for Inequality
A Comparative Defense of Self-initiated Prospective Moral Answerability for Autonomous Robot harm
Culpable Ignorance and Causal Deviance
Being implicated
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Narrative responsibility and artificial intelligence
Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit
A Puzzle Concerning Blame Transfer
Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law
The Composition of Forces
Philosophical Issues in Tort Law
Doing and Deserving
Physical Causation
Responsibility and Control
Causation By Omission
Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language
Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory Exclusion
How To Be Responsible For Something Without Causing It
Causation by Disconnection
Causation
Causes As Difference-Makers
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |