thanks are also owed to an anonymous reader for Philosophy G Public Affairs for extensive and insightful written comments that resulted in innumerable improvements to all aspects of the paper.1. Assume that her prospects, though limited, are good enough that the child's life is certainly objectively worth living.2. A nice statement of the skeptical position is advanced in

Philosophical discussions of the phenomenon that has come to be known as 'moral luck' have either dismissed it as illusory or touted it as the evidence for doubting the probative value of our commitment to certain widely avowed views concerning interpersonal assessments of responsibility. In this discussion, we present a third, distinctive interpretation of the moral luck phenomenon. Drawing upon empirically robust results from psychological studies of judgment bias, we argue that the phenomenon of moral luck is demonstrably not illusory. What we suggest, however, is that the phenomenon ought not to be taken to countenance doubts about the standards generally taken to be regulative of assessments of interpersonal responsibility. Rather, its significance lies in foregrounding certain generally unacknowledged obstacles we face in the process of conclusively applying general valid moral standards in making specific judgments of responsibility and desert. 1

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