Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Harm and benefit are crucial to our everyday decisions about what to do, and yet their nature and significance is obscure. In this dissertation, I identify what we want from an account of harm and benefit, and I defend a new account on the grounds that it gives us what we want. Along the way, I review and refine existing challenges of preemption and overdetermination, and I develop new challenges regarding difference-making and indeterminacy. I argue that these challenges arise from failing to distinguish between relevant alternatives, and this diagnosis leads me to search for an account that distinguishes between relevant alternatives. What ultimately emerges is a unified perspective on the nature and significance of harm and benefit
DOI: 10.17615/8cm3-zy77
Author: Thieme, Aaron
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6906478683
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