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Area of Science:

  • Moral Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Decision Theory

Background:

  • Understanding moral responsibility is complex, especially in situations with multiple actors and potential outcomes.
  • Existing frameworks often struggle to capture the nuances of agency and the necessity of alternative possibilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a formal logical framework for analyzing the structure of moral responsibility.
  • To identify and disambiguate key criteria for moral responsibility.
  • To explore the logical relationships between these criteria, particularly in interdependent decision contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a formal logical language to define criteria for moral responsibility.
  • Incorporation of an agency condition and a negative condition of alternative possibility.
  • Utilizing responsibility games for semantic analysis in interdependent decision contexts.

Main Results:

  • Identification and disambiguation of seven plausible criteria for moral responsibility.
  • Classification of the logical relations between these seven distinct criteria.
  • Demonstration that the seven criteria can logically reduce to three under specific circumstances.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed logical framework provides a rigorous method for studying moral responsibility.
  • The framework clarifies the distinctness and potential interrelations of various responsibility criteria.
  • This work offers new insights into the logical structure of moral responsibility in complex scenarios.