On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:15 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > How does "causality" work in moral reasoning? Maybe we could say that about > formal logic if we were using "causal" in a figurative way but to press such > a notion so far as to save moral reasoning within a deterministic view seems > to stretch things well beyond the breaking point.
It means that when we deliberate about moral issues, we mentally play out the available options before acting. We assume that our actions have predictable consequences, and try to predict what they will be before we act. It we did not live in a world of causes and effects, it would do one no good to have free will, and the sort of moral responsibility where one is thought to be responsible because of having control only makes sense if the actions that we supposedly have control over have predictable consequences. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
