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The Journal of Value Inquiry
Published in: The Journal of Value Inquiry 3/2016

08-10-2015 | Book Review

Fiona Woollard, Doing and Allowing Harm

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-0-19-968364-2, $70, HC

Author: Jacob Blair

Published in: The Journal of Value Inquiry | Issue 3/2016

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Fiona Woollard’s recent book, Doing and Allowing Harm, is an impressively rigorous defense of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing (DDA). Woollard understands DDA (a central component of common sense morality) as the claim that other things being equal, doing harm is harder to justify than allowing harm: the personal cost that would permit me to allow a certain harm to befall a person may not be enough to permit me to do that same harm to that person. For example, I’m seemingly permitted to allow a child to drown if rescuing him results in the loss of my own life. But I wouldn’t be permitted to push the child into a pond, let’s say (whereupon he would drown), if that is the only way to save my own life. …
previous article John Martin Fischer, Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will

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Metadata
Title
Fiona Woollard, Doing and Allowing Harm
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-0-19-968364-2, $70, HC
Author
Jacob Blair
Publication date
08-10-2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
The Journal of Value Inquiry / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0022-5363
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0492
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-015-9532-7

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