Moral luck occurs when an agent can be correctly treated as an object of moral judgment despite the fact that a significant aspect of what she is assessed for depends on factors beyond her control.
One of Lorge's main conclusions is that "an unchanged object of judgment undergoes a change of evaluation".
She cast the ranch in a new light: she wasn't of them, she was an envoy of the larger world that also wasn't of them, and without even trying she made them an object of the world's judgment".
At the very least, in many pleasant moods and meditative states, no object is salient and reportable, as an object of conscious belief, thought, judgment, or desire characteristically is.
All judgments have a form which can be linguistically expressed as 'The object A exists' or 'The object A does not exist.' The object of judgment (A) is what is judged in a judgment.
Asch, however, reinterprets Lorge's findings and suggests that there was "a change in the object of judgment, rather than in the judgment of the object" (Asch, 1940).
Such judgments are especially common within classical music, where Cage, who died in 1992, remains an object of widespread scorn.
He suggests that a person will redefine the object of judgment based on the content of the evaluations.
Causal modeling seems to play a central role in the process of judgment when the object of judgment can be construed as a causal effect.
Kantian constructivism inverts the relationship realists see holding between objectivity and truth; rather than objective judgments being grounded in the discernment of antecedent objects of truth, objectivity (of judgment) precedes the object (of truth).
