Are our moral responsibility practices justified? Wittgenstein, Strawson and justification in ‘Freedom and Resentment’
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal for the History of Philosophy
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0960-8788,1469-3526
DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2017.1420628