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The practice of everyday life provides supporters and inviters of morally responsible agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2018

Jörg Zinken  and
Vasudevi Reddy
Jörg Zinken
Affiliation:
Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), 68161 Mannheim, Germany; zinken@ids-mannheim.de http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/prag/personal/zinken.html?L=1
Vasudevi Reddy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom PO1 2DY. vasu.reddy@port.ac.uk http://www.port.ac.uk/department-of-psychology/research/situated-action-and-communication/
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Abstract

Drawing on research from conversation analysis and developmental psychology, we point to the existence of “supporters” of morally responsible agency in everyday interaction: causes of our behavior that we are often unaware of, but that would make good-enough reasons for our actions, were we made aware of them.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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