Responsibility in Multi-Step Decision Schemes.

Two different forms of responsibility, counterfactual and seeing-to-it, have been extensively discussed in philosophy in the context of a single agent or multiple agents acting simultaneously. Although the generalisation of counterfactual responsibility to a setting where multiple agents act in some...

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Publicado en:Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 493 - 532
Autores principales: Shi, Qi, Naumov, Pavel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2025
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