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Mutual entailment between causation and responsibility

Sytsma, Justin; Willemsen, Pascale; Reuter, Kevin (2023). Mutual entailment between causation and responsibility. Philosophical Studies, 180(12):3593-3614.

Abstract

The standard view in philosophy is that responsibility entails causation. Most philosophers treat this entailment claim as an evident insight into the ordinary concepts of responsibility and causation. Further, it is taken to be equally obvious that the reversal of this claim does not hold: causation does not entail responsibility. In contrast, Sytsma and Livengood have put forward an account of the use of ordinary causal attributions (statements like “X caused Y”) that contends that they are typically used interchangeably with responsibility attributions (statements like “X is responsible for Y”). Put in terms of the concepts at play in these attributions, this account suggests that the reversal of the entailment claim may also hold, and, a fortiori, there would be mutual entailment between the ordinary concepts of responsibility and causation. Using the cancellability test, we report the results of three pre-registered studies providing empirical evidence that causation and responsibility are mutually entailed by each other.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:01 Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion > Center for Ethics
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
Dewey Decimal Classification:100 Philosophy
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Philosophy
Uncontrolled Keywords:Entailment claim, causation, responsibility, experimental philosophy, causal cognition
Language:English
Date:1 December 2023
Deposited On:12 Jan 2024 07:53
Last Modified:30 Oct 2024 02:40
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:0031-8116
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02041-2
Official URL:https://rdcu.be/dvOuV
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