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Episode 38: Omissions and Frankfurt Cases with John Stigall

April 18, 2022 • Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer • Season 4 • Episode 8

In this episode, we talk with John Stigall about omissions and Frankfurt cases. John defends the view that, while we can be morally responsible for performing positive actions even if we lack the ability to do otherwise, moral responsibility for omissions requires the ability to do otherwise.

John's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-stigall

John's article, "Causation, Norms, and Omissions: A Study of Causal Judgments (with Randolph Clarke, Joshua Shepherd, Robyn Repko Waller, and Chris Zarpentine): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2013.815099

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