Making Ethics
A window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally important is whether Annie broke the window. In this thesis, I first genera...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| author | Byrne, Thomas |
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| description | A window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally important is whether Annie broke the window. In this thesis, I first generalise and argue for that claim; afterwards, I put it to work in ethics, applied ethics, and legal theory. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1391342022-01-15T03:30:58Z Making Ethics Byrne, Thomas Hare, Caspar Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy A window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally important is whether Annie broke the window. In this thesis, I first generalise and argue for that claim; afterwards, I put it to work in ethics, applied ethics, and legal theory. Ph.D. 2022-01-14T14:51:57Z 2022-01-14T14:51:57Z 2021-06 2021-11-19T21:25:18.734Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139134 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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