Last semester I took a seminar with Renée Jorgensen on moral rights and social norms. One of the main questions we discussed throughout the seminar is how a special kind of moral ignorance about non-moral facts (what R. Jorgensen calls “normative opacity” in her book manuscript) influences how people act in a setting where some […]
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