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35 | Moral Luck and Pedagogy (with Aaron Rabinowitz)

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There Any Moral Responsibility?

The way our systems often operate are as if we describe that there are situations of bad luck or good luck, but agent is still someone for whom they must be responsible. If you lose causal dominance, you actually have a hard time getting back to moral responsibility - at least the way that we talk about it. So by thinking through these things and then acting differently on that knowledge, we can still improve the world in this kind of way. We just have to acknowledge whether we do those things and are successful is a matter of luck. That's where the regress problem really gets bad. And what happens is you run into a wall of constitutive luckWhere you just can't deny that your constitution

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