Situations against virtues: The situationist attack on virtue theory

Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 274-290

  Sosa, Ernest ^a  

^a Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511812880.021     Document Type: Chapter

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