Failures to act and failures of additivity

Philosophical Perspectives 20 (1):373–385 (2006)
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Abstract

On the face of it, causal responsibility seems to be “additive” in the following sense: if I cause some effects, then it seems that I also cause the sum (aggregate, conjunction, etc.) of those effects. Let’s call the claim that causation behaves in this way, Additivity.

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