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Book review of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s The Roots of Morality

Pennsylvania University Press, 2008

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  1. In analytic philosophy, the work of Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons has done a good deal to remind some philosophers of the significance of moral phenomenology. See, amongst other things, their (2005) and (2008). See also the special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2008 (7) and Drummond and Embree (2002).

  2. Levinas 1986, 24.

  3. Levinas 1986, 24.

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Smith, B. Book review of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s The Roots of Morality . Phenom Cogn Sci 10, 419–422 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-011-9206-2

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