Interpersonal Moral Luck and Normative Entanglement

Story, Daniel

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“…Nagel (1979Nagel ( /2012 takes standard resultant, circumstantial, and constitutive luck to threaten agency. An interesting feature of luck with regard to moral principles is that it does not threaten agency in this way (a feature it shares with what Story [2019] calls "interpersonal moral luck"). Note, however, that pointing to this feature as a relevant difference does not seem like a promising strategy because being a threat to agency is plausibly not always a feature of standard luck factors.…”

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Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck

Nyman

2024

Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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On a common characterization, moral luck occurs when factors beyond agents’ control affect their moral responsibility. The existence of moral luck is widely contested, however. In this paper, I present a new challenge for deniers of moral luck. It seems that some factors beyond agents’ control—such as moral principles about blame- and praiseworthiness—clearly affect moral responsibility. Thus, moral luck deniers face a dialectical burden that has so far gone unnoticed. They must either point to a relevant difference between factors like moral principles and the kind of factors that according to them do not affect moral responsibility or show how they can avoid having to point to such a difference. I argue that no obvious way to meet the challenge presents itself and that it thus amounts to a serious worry for deniers of moral luck.

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Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck

Nyman

2024

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“…Cf. Khoury (2017) and Story (2019) for discussions on collective responsibility that also involve discussions on resultant moral luck.…”

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Against resultant moral luck

Demirtas

2022

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Does one's causal responsibility increase the degree of one's moral responsibility? The proponents of resultant moral luck hold that it does. Until quite recently, the causation literature has almost exclusively been interested in the binary question of whether one factor is a cause of an outcome. Naturally, the debate over resultant moral luck also revolved around this binary question. However, we have seen an increased interest in the question of degrees of causation in recent years. And some philosophers have already explored various implications of a graded notion of causation on resultant moral luck. In this paper, I will do the same. But the implications that I will draw attention to are bad news for resultant moral luck. I will show that resultant moral luck entails some implausible results that leave resultant moral luck more indefensible than it was previously thought be. I will also show that what is typically taken to be the positive argument in favor of resultant moral luck fails. I will conclude that we should reject resultant moral luck.

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“…And as we have already seen, in healthcare settings, the actions of peers and superordinates have the potential to set back a clinician's interests in maintaining an unimpeachable moral status. This fact grounds defeasible entitlements to demand that superordinates, peers, and subordinates act well, and clinicians may avail themselves of these entitlements in an attempt to insulate themselves from interpersonal moral luck (see Story, 2019). For instance, the respiratory therapist from INTUBATION was entitled to forcefully demand that the resident let her take over, not just because of the threat the resident posed to the patient, but because the resident's incompetent attempts at intubation in her presence would reflect poorly on her vis-à-vis her obligations as a respiratory therapist and negatively alter her standing in the eyes of others and herself.…”

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“…In this paper, we discuss another type of moral luck that seems to pervade the healthcare professions, which has not been discussed in the literature before. Interpersonal moral luck occurs whenever the actions of others, qua actions, affect an agent's moral status in a way that is at least partially outside that agent's control (Story, 2019). Now in many cases of moral luck an agent's moral status depends counterfactually on the actions of others.…”

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Moral luck in team‐based health care

Story

Kenner²

2020

Nursing Philosophy

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Clinicians regularly work as teams and perform joint actions that have a great deal of moral significance. As a result, clinicians regularly share moral responsibility for the actions of their teams and other clinicians. In this paper, we argue that clinicians are exceptionally susceptible to a special type of moral luck, called interpersonal moral luck, because their moral statuses are often affected by the actions of other clinicians in a way that is not fully within their control. We then argue that this susceptibility partly explains why a conscientious clinician has reason to avoid participating in unvirtuous healthcare teams. We also argue that this susceptibility partly explains the special systems of entitlements that characterize healthcare teams and set healthcare teams apart from other teams of workers.

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Interpersonal Moral Luck and Normative Entanglement

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Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck

Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck

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Moral luck in team‐based health care

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