More Trouble with Tracing.
Theories of moral responsibility rely on tracing principles to account for derivative moral responsibility. Manuel Vargas has argued that such principles are problematic. To show this, he presents cases where individuals are derivatively blameworthy for their conduct, but where there is no suitable...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 987 - 1012 |
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Oct2015
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