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- Title
DEVIANCE AND CAUSALISM.
- Authors
O'BRIEN, LILIAN
- Abstract
Drawing on the problem of deviance, I present a novel line of argumentation against causal theories of action. The causalist faces a dilemma: either she adopts a simple account of the causal route between intention and outcome, at the cost of failing to rule out deviance cases, or she adopts a more sophisticated account, at the cost of ruling out cases of intentional action in which the causal route is merely unusual. Underlying this dilemma, I argue, is that the agent's perspective plays an ineliminable role in determining which causal pathways are deviant and which are not.
- Subjects
DEVIANT behavior; CAUSATION (Philosophy); DILEMMA; INTENTION; COMMITMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2012, Vol 93, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01420.x