Abstract
Legal and moral claims refer to omissions as having a causal responsibility (think of medical activity and liability for not performing certain acts). From a philosophical viewpoint this raises a dilemma consisting in the negative nature of omissions on the one hand and their causal role on the other. How is it possible that negative entities have a causal role? The paper discusses various strategies to address this dilemma and concentrates on the view that omissions are negative actions described as such on the basis of a norm. The main reason for preferring this view is that omissions have a normative necessary condition: there is no omission without a norm prescribing a certain action. This leads to the idea that their causal role consists in an indirect or merely normative role.
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