A Wild West of the Mind

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (3):483-496 (2019)
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abstractThis paper addresses the relation between morality and private thought. It is widely agreed that government and society have no business trying to control our thoughts—that, as long as we d...

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10.1080/00048402.2018.1490326

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Concealment and Exposure.Thomas Nagel - 1998 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 27 (1):3-30.

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