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Moral agency among the ruins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2018

David Dunning
David Dunning*
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Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. ddunning@umich.edu https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sasi/
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Abstract

Doris suggests thought-provoking directions for rehabilitating moral agency within a self that is unaware and incoherent. These directions suggest more radical proposals. First, moral reasoning may serve many different functions beyond merely expressing a person's values. Second, social collaboration may not focus on moral reasoning as much as it does on the “defeaters” of that agency. Ultimately, moral agency may not reside in the individual but in social communities or within external situations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e42
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