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Alice is about to inherit a large some of money and then she hears that she has a long-lost sibling with whom she’d have to share. So she hi...

In an old post , I observe the curious phenomenon that a typical attempted murder is not an attempt to murder and a typical attempted theft ...

Thomson and other opponents of the idea that intention deeply affects moral permissibility like to point to the idea that it is silly to thi...

It is a common intuition, especially among Christians, that attempts at immoral actions—say, attempted murder or attempted adultery—are just...

Alice has just fed a poison to Bob. Bob hasn’t died yet. He is standing, by coincidence, on the edge of a cliff, and soon will die of the po...

Alice falsely believes that killing her husband Bob would be morally right (say, because Bob committed adultery). She shoots Bob, trying to ...

It is tempting to use harm to self as an explanation for the wrongness of various things. Kant infamously did this in trying to explain why ...