Human moral responsibility is moral responsibility enough: A reply to F. Allan Hanson |
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Authors: | Ronald N Giere |
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Institution: | (1) Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Abstract: | Hanson claims that moral responsibility should be distributed among both the humans and artifacts comprising complex wholes
that produce morally relevant outcomes in the world. I argue that this claim is not sufficiently supported. In particular,
adopting a consequentialist understanding of morality does not by itself support the view that the existence of a causally
necessary object in such a complex whole is sufficient for assigning moral responsibility to that object. Moreover, there are good reasons, both evolutionary and contemporary,
for not adopting this stance. |
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Keywords: | Moral responsibility Extended agency Distributed cognition |
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