Bernard Williams described the case of a lorry driver who runs over a child through no fault of his own. In this article, I pursue two aims. First, I want to moti-vate a puzzle about Williams’s case, which I call the Lorry Driver Paradox and which consists of three individually plausible but jointly inconsistent claims. Second, I want to offer a solution to this paradox based on a novel approach to so-called strict moral answerability. I conclude by responding to the objection that strict answer-ability is a contradiction in terms.
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Kiener, M. (2024). Strict Moral Answerability. Ethics, 134(3), 360–386. https://doi.org/10.1086/728635
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