You Just Didn't Care Enough

We refine the intuitively appealing idea that you are blameworthy for something if it happened because did not care enough. More formally: X (where may be an action, omission, or outcome) just in case there is right causal-explanatory relation between your poor quality of will and X. First, we argue blameworthiness actions, omissions, outcomes concerned with negative differences: fact occurred instead X*, where worse than X*. Second, way which has to fit what for. With these refinements, account already gives correct verdicts cases forgetting, making a difference nevertheless good result, doing action runaway consequences. then discuss suggest simply causation, understood way. Here, draw on causation developed Touborg, The Dual Nature Causation. According this account, two necessary jointly sufficient conditions causation. Roughly, C causes E rather E* iff (a) process-connected E, (b) makes more secure less secure. our now also pre-emption, switching cases, Frankfurt-style collective harm cases.