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Distinguishing Agent-Relativity From Agent Neutrality, Matthew Hammerton
Distinguishing Agent-Relativity From Agent Neutrality, Matthew Hammerton
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction is one of the most important incontemporary moral theory. Yet providing an adequate formal account of it hasproven to be difficult. In this article I defend a new formal account of the distinction,one that avoids various problems faced by other accounts. My account is based on aninfluential account of the distinction developed by McNaughton and Rawling. I arguethat their approach is on the right track but that it succumbs to two seriousobjections. I then show how to formulate a new account that follows the key insightsof McNaughton and Rawling’s approach yet avoids the two objections.