In Control

Authors

  • William M Simkulet Prince William Sound Community College Friends University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v2i2.50

Keywords:

ethics, free will, moral responsibility

Abstract

In George Sher's recent article "Out of Control", he discusses a series of 9 cases that he believes illustrates that some agents are uncontroversially morally responsible for actions they "cannot help" but perform.  He argues these agents exert partial control over these actions insofar as their actions are determined from their character; but this is no control at all.  Here I argue that in each of these cases the agent exerts morally relevant control over her actions and that none of these are genuine instances of moral luck, nor counterexamples to the control principle.

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Published

2014-07-01

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Essays

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