Harm: Omission, Preemption, Freedom

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (2):251-73 (2016)
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The Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm says that an event is overall harmful for someone if and only if it makes her worse off than she otherwise would have been. I defend this account from two common objections.

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