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Strict Moral Answerability
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2024-04-01
Sprache
English
Journal
Volume
134
Issue
3
Start Page
360
End Page
386
Citation
Ethics 134 (3): 360-386 (2024)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISSN
0014-1704
Bernard Williams described the case of a lorry driver who runs over a child through no fault of his own. In this article, I pursue two aims. First, I want to moti-vate a puzzle about Williams’s case, which I call the Lorry Driver Paradox and which consists of three individually plausible but jointly inconsistent claims. Second, I want to offer a solution to this paradox based on a novel approach to so-called strict moral answerability. I conclude by responding to the objection that strict answer-ability is a contradiction in terms.
DDC Class
600: Technology