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  1. Christine M. Korsgaard, “Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit” in Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 363.

  2. Ibid., p. 377.

  3. See Roderick M. Chisholm, “Human Freedom and the Self,” The Lindley Lecture (1964).

  4. “Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit,” p. 378.

  5. Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 228.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid., p. 232.

  8. Ibid., p. 98.

  9. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of The Metaphysics of Morals in Practical Philosophy, ed. and trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 73.

  10. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, p. 98.

  11. Kant, Groundwork of The Metaphysics of Morals, p. 75.

  12. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, p. 228.

  13. Christine M. Korsgaard, Self-Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 32.

  14. Christine M. Korsgaard, “Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant” in The Constitution of Agency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 110.

  15. Ibid., p. 111.

  16. Ibid., p. 112.

  17. Ibid., p. 113.

  18. Christine M. Korsgaard, Self-Constitution, p. xii.

  19. Ibid., p. 132.

  20. Christine M. Korsgaard, “Introduction” in The Constitution of Agency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 10.

  21. See Harry Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” the Journal of Philosophy, vol. 68, no. 1 (1971).

  22. I would like to thank the University Research Committee of Oakland University for a Faculty Research Fellowship that supported my work. I am grateful to Radu Neculau, Christopher Tindale, Phillip Rose, Jeff Noonan, and an audience at the University of Windsor for their comments and to Rosemary Twomey, David Pereplyotchik, David Enoch, and Keota Fields for discussions of Christine Korsgaard’s philosophy. I am especially grateful to two anonymous referees and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their careful critiques and help on this article.

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McDonald, F.J. Agency and Responsibility. J Value Inquiry 44, 199–207 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9211-7

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