Responses to commentators on intricate ethics

Utilitas 20 (1):111-142 (2008)
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Some of the commentators on Intricate Ethics complain of my method. One finds the main ideas ‘Kammouflaged’ because the relevant causal distinctions are so fine-grained and the cases that illustrate them so numerous . Some say that they do not have the intuitions about many cases that I have, that I concoct dubious and ad hoc distinctions and invest them with moral significance; I am Ptolemaic in that new crystalline spheres and epicycles are constantly being added in an attempt to fix the appearances

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original Kamm, F. M. (2008) "Responses to Commentators on Intricate Ethics1: F. M. Kamm". Utilitas 20(1):111-142

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Frances Myrna Kamm
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