# A Logical Study of Moral Responsibility

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a logical framework to analyze the structure of moral responsibility for outcomes, focusing on agency and alternative possibilities.

## Contribution

The paper presents a novel logical language and semantics using responsibility games to classify and disambiguate seven moral responsibility criteria.

## Key findings

- The logical framework identifies seven distinct criteria for moral responsibility.
- The criteria can be locally reduced to three under certain circumstances.
- Responsibility games provide a semantics for interdependent decision contexts.

## Abstract

This paper proposes a logical framework for studying the structure of moral responsibility for outcomes. The analysis incorporates two vital features: an agency condition and a negative condition of an alternative possibility. The logical language allows us to identify and disambiguate seven plausible criteria for moral responsibility. To accommodate interdependent decision contexts, the semantics are given in terms of so-called responsibility games. The logical framework enables us to classify the logical relations between these seven criteria for moral responsibility. Although all seven criteria are logically distinct, I also identify circumstances where the seven criteria locally reduce to only three.