Agency ascriptions in ethics and epistemology: Or, navigating intersections, narrow and broad

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 73-94

  Axtell, Guy ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character; Generality problem; Metacognition; Situationism; Vice; Virtue; Virtue theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949378932     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: 14679973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01622.x     Document Type: Review

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