Kamm’s Intricate Ethics: Chapter 7
This chapter on moral status is very short, and also mercifully short on intricate imaginary examples. Kamm quickly takes us through a number of relatively familiar normative distinctions and I will...
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View ArticleJournal of Moral Philosophy 6(4) (2009)
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View ArticleMerton Workshop on Applied Formal Ethics
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View ArticleParfit and the Priority View
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