Chapter 7 Socializing Responsibility

There is a near universal consensus that the bearers of moral responsibility are the individuals we identify with proper names. I suggest that if we take the exercise of agency as a guide to the identification of agents, we may find that agents sometimes extend into the world: they may be constitute...

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Main Author: Levy, Neil (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2018
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