Abstract
dc:description.abstractA window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally important is whether Annie broke the window. In this thesis, I first generalise and argue for that claim; afterwards, I put it to work in ethics, applied ethics, and legal theory.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctoral
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2021
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Byrne, Thomas
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Hare, Caspar
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright retained by author(s)
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139134
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/139134