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Causation and the silly norm effect

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2023
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Güver, L., & Kneer, M. (2023). Causation and the silly norm effect. In S. Magen & K. Prochownik (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law (pp. 133–168). Bloomsbury.

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In many spheres, the law takes the legal concept of causation to correspond to the folk concept (the correspondence assumption). Courts, including the US Supreme Court, tend to insist on the "common understanding" and that which is "natural to say" (Burrage v. United States) when it comes to expressions relating to causation, and frequently refuse to clarify the expression to juries. As recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy has uncovered, lay attributions of causation are susceptible to a great number of unexpected fac

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  • Magen, Stefan
  • Prochownik, Karolina

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Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law

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London

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133

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168

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Keywords

Causation, law, norms, bias, foreseeability, blame

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English

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2023-05-28

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2023-01-16

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9781350260160

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Güver, L., & Kneer, M. (2023). Causation and the silly norm effect. In S. Magen & K. Prochownik (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law (pp. 133–168). Bloomsbury.

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