Common Sense about refraining : locating moral responsibility when nothing happens

• Main Author: Lin, Xin Er
• Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156124
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It appears common sense that acts of refraining, or absence-events, are morally assessed in part by what they cause. This paper focuses on determining which agential absence-events are put up for deontic assessments. Proposals are introduced to align with the common-sense thought in order to determi...