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Review of Cassam’s Vices of the Mind

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  1. This notion was first expressed by Alberto Brandolini in a tweet: https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521.

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Alfano, M. Vices of Other Minds. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 23, 875–879 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-10048-0

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