Doing without deliberation: Automatism, automaticity, and moral accountability

Neil Levy; Tim Bayne

doi:10.1080/09540260400003909

Doing without deliberation

Automatism, automaticity, and moral accountability

Neil Levy, Tim Bayne^*

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Abstract

Actions performed in a state of automatism are not subject to moral evaluation, while automatic actions often are. Is the asymmetry between automatistic and automatic actions justified? In order to answer this question we need a model of moral accountability that does justice to our intuitions about a range of modes of agency, both pathological and non-pathological. Our aim in this paper is to lay the groundwork for the development of such a model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	209-215
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Review of Psychiatry
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09540260400003909
Publication status	Published - Aug 2004

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