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Over-Determined Harms and Harmless Pluralities

Petersson, Bjöm

Ethical theory and moral practice, 2018-08, Vol.21 (4), p.841-850 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Dordrecht: Springer

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Título:
Over-Determined Harms and Harmless Pluralities
Autor: Petersson, Bjöm
Assuntos: Accountability ; Analysis ; Coresponsibility ; Counterfactual thinking ; Criticism and interpretation ; Education ; Ethics ; Feit ; Filosofi ; Filosofi, etik och religion ; Harm ; Harm principle (Ethics) ; Holding ; Humaniora och konst ; Humanities ; Ontology ; Over-determination ; Parfit ; Parfit, Derek ; Philosophers ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of Medicine ; Philosophy, Ethics and Religion ; Plural harm ; Political Philosophy ; Pre-emption ; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
É parte de: Ethical theory and moral practice, 2018-08, Vol.21 (4), p.841-850
Descrição: A popular strategy for meeting over-determination and pre-emption challenges to the comparative counterfactual conception of harm is Derek Parfit 's suggestion, more recently defended by Neil Feit, that a plurality of events harms A if and only if that plurality is the smallest plurality of events such that, if none of them had occurred, A would have been better off. This analysis of 'harm' rests on a simple but natural mistake about the relevant counterfactual comparison. Pluralities fulfilling these conditions make no difference to the worse for anyone in the over-determination cases that prompted the need for revising the comparative conception of harm to begin with. We may choose to call them harmful anyway, but then we must abandon the idea that making a difference to the worse for someone is essential to harming. I argue that we should hold on to the difference-making criterion and give up the plural harm principle. I offer an explanation of why Parfit's and Feit's plural harm approach seems attractive. Finally, I argue that the consequences of giving up the plural harm principle and holding on to the simple comparative counterfactual analysis of harm are less radical than we may think, in relation to questions about wrongness and responsibility.
Editor: Dordrecht: Springer
Idioma: Inglês

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