The inescapability of moral luck

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 10 (4):302-310 (2021)
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I argue that any account attempting to do away with resultant or circumstantial moral luck is inconsistent with a natural response to the problem of constitutive moral luck. It is plausible to think that we sometimes contribute to the formation of our characters in such a way as to mitigate our constitutive moral luck at later times. But, as I argue here, whether or not we succeed in bringing about changes to our characters is itself a matter of resultant and circumstantial moral luck. I conclude with a dilemma, both horns of which require accepting some form of moral luck.

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Taylor W. Cyr
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Free Will and Moral Luck.Robert J. Hartman - 2022 - In Joseph Keim Campbell, Kristin M. Mickelson & V. Alan White, A Companion to Free Will. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 378-392.
Drawing a Line: Rejecting Resultant Moral Luck Alone.Huzeyfe Demirtas - forthcoming - Canadian Journal of Philosophy:1-14.

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Free Will and Luck.Alfred R. Mele - 2006 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
The impossibility of moral responsibility.Galen Strawson - 1994 - Philosophical Studies 75 (1-2):5-24.

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