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HOORAY! WE'RE NOT MORALLY RESPONSIBLE!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2009

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Being morally responsible means being blameworthy and deserving of punishment if we do wrong and praiseworthy and deserving reward if we do right. In what follows I shall argue that in all likelihood we're not morally responsible. None of us. Ever.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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