Organon F
Volume 26, May 2019, Issue 2, Pages 228–248
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
The Significance of the Relationship between Main Effects and Side Effects for Understanding the Knobe Effect
Andrzej Waleszczyński – Michał Obidziński – Julia Rejewska
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26203
The characteristic asymmetry in ascribing intentionality, known as the Knobe effect, is widely thought to result from the moral evaluation of the side effect. Existing research has focused mostly on elucidating the ordinary meaning of the notion of intentionality, while less effort has been devoted to the moral conditions associated with the analyzed scenarios. The current analysis of the moral properties of the main and side effects, as well as of the moral evaluations of the relationship between them, sheds new light on the influence of moral considerations on the attribution of intentionality in the Knobe effect. The moral evaluation of the relationship between the main and side effects is significant in that under certain circumstances it cancels asymmetry in intentionality ascription.
Asymmetry; intentional action; intentionality; Knobe effect; moral evaluation; moral properties; side effect.
Author
Andrzej Waleszczyński (Corresponding Author)
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Author
Michał Obidziński
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Author
Julia Rejewska
Affiliation
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
Address
Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Christian Philosophy, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Wóycickiego 1/3, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland
Received
26 March 2018
Accepted
19 October 2018
Published online
14 March 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Waleszczyński, A., Obidziński, M., and Rejewska, J. (2019). The Significance of the Relationship between Main Effects and Side Effects for Understanding the Knobe Effect. Organon F, 26(2), 228–248. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26203
Chicago
Waleszczyński, Andrzej, Obidziński, Michał, and Rejewska, Julia. 2019. "The Significance of the Relationship between Main Effects and Side Effects for Understanding the Knobe Effect." Organon F 26 (2): 228–248. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26203
Harvard
Waleszczyński, A., Obidziński, M., and Rejewska, J. (2019). The Significance of the Relationship between Main Effects and Side Effects for Understanding the Knobe Effect. Organon F, 26(2), pp. 228–248. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26203
© Andrzej Waleszczyński, Michał Obidziński, Julia Rejewska
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