Counterfactual Situations and Moral Worth

Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (3):294-319 (2014)
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Abstract

What is the relevance to praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of what one would have done in other, counterfactual circumstances? I defend a moderate form of actualism: what one would have done is important, but less so than what one actually does.

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Moral Luck.B. A. O. Williams & T. Nagel - 1976 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 50 (1):115-152.
The Paradox of Moral Worth.Kelly Sorensen - 2004 - Journal of Philosophy 101 (9):465-483.

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