Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Some morally required acts are wrong and blameworthy. In certain cases—Alone/Together dilemmas, single-agent dilemmas, and Actualist “Professor Procrastinate” cases—an agent is required to perform each of two incompatible actions, such that performing some act required of her is a way of failing to perform another act which is also required of her. The required act she performs is thereby wrong. According to my theory, Deontic Status Tracing, whether an agent is blameworthy for such an act depends on what explains its bizarre deontic status—namely, whether it is her fault that this act is simultaneously required and wrong.
Source: Ethics
DOI: 10.1086/738311
Author: Margaret Shea
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4417513397