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Tadros, Victor (2018) Causal contributions and liability. Ethics, 128 (2). pp. 402-431. doi:10.1086/694275
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/694275
Abstract
This article explores the extent to which the magnitude of harm that a person is liable to suffer to avert a threat depends on the magnitude of her causal contribution to the threat. Several different versions of this view are considered. The conclusions are mostly skeptical — facts that may determine how large of a causal contribution a person makes to a threat are not morally significant, or not sufficiently significant to make an important difference to liability. However, understanding ways in which causation may be scalar helps to deepen our understanding of other morally significant facts, such as responsibility.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KA Jurisprudence | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Liability (Law) , Responsibility | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ethics | ||||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0014-1704 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 128 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 402-431 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/694275 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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