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What it means for an event to harm: a historical baseline variant of the causal account of harming

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: According to the causal account of harming, an event harms a person if and only if it causes the person to be worse off. This view has emerged as a popular alternative to the more traditional view, according to which an event harms a person if and only if the person would have been better off had the event not occurred. In this paper, my primary aim is to motivate and defend a certain variant of the causal account of harming. Moreover, I also situate this variant within recent attempts to provide a unified account of harm.

Source: Law and Philosophy

DOI: 10.1007/s10982-024-09517-0

Author: Yan Kai Zhou

Institution: Queen Mary University of London

Language: English

Topic: Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,890