Agire o Non Agire. Il Ruolo dell’Omission Bias nei Giudizi Morali

It has been often argued, in particular within non-consequentialist ethics, that doing harm is worse than allowing harm. The corresponding moral intuition is thought to play a primary role in driving moral evaluations and responsibility attributions. The present paper discusses the nature of such an intuition as grounded in specific cognitive biases featuring in causal reasoning applied to omission cases.