The Problem of Self-Torture: What's Being Done?
We commonly face circumstances in which the cumulative negative effects of repeatedly acting in a certain way over time will be significant, although the negative effects of any one such act, taken on its own, are insubstantial. Warren Quinn's puzzle of the self-torturer presents an especially clear...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 584 - 606 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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