Norms and the Knobe effect

In a justly famous study, Joshua Knobe found an asymmetry in the way we ascribe intentional action (Knobe 2003). Consider an executive who, motivated entirely by the goal of maximizing profit, embarks on a policy that he knows will also cause environmental damage. Does he intentionally harm the envi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holton, Richard
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61993
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8116-2639