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concrete-abstract asymmetry in responsibility judgments: a standalone construct

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the finding that people deny moral responsibility in a deterministic universe when asked abstractly, yet assign it when a vivid, concrete wrongdoer is described.

In experimental philosophy, concrete-abstract asymmetry in responsibility judgments refers to the finding that people deny moral responsibility in a deterministic universe when asked abstractly, yet assign it when a vivid, concrete wrongdoer is described. This meaning comes from Nichols (2007) in Noûs.[1]

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  1. Nichols, S., & Knobe, J. (2007). Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions. Noûs, 41(4), 663-685. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00666.x

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