Speaker: Professor Liu Xiaofei (School of Philosophy, Wuhan University)

Chair: Professor Liu Chuang (Academic Director, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University)

Discussants:

  • · Associate Professor Tian Jie (School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China)
  • · Assistant Professor Wang Yuzhou (Department of Philosophy, Peking University)

Date: Thursday, December 19, 2024
Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: Lecture Hall, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Organizer: Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract:
Mainstream discussions of moral responsibility in cases of manipulation have predominantly focused on how manipulation deprives agents of their control. However, examining moral responsibility solely through the lens of control presence or absence overlooks the crucial question of "what ought to be the proper scope of our control." The delineation of rights boundaries inherently involves determining the appropriate extent of individual autonomous control, suggesting that the question of rights boundaries may be pertinent to attribution judgments in cases of manipulation. We propose a novel hypothesis: whether manipulation violates the manipulated agent’s rights boundaries influences judgments about their moral responsibility for manipulated actions. Specifically, the impact of manipulation on moral responsibility attribution is hypothesized to be more significant in cases where the manipulation violates the agent’s rights boundaries, compared to cases where it does not.

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