What Maisie Knew: Moral Imagination and Two Conceptions of Moral Thought

SATS 18 (2):141-157 (2017)
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According to a widely held view, moral thought essentially involves the survey of an array of independently specifiable morally relevant facts, on the basis of which an agent is to reach a judgment about how anybody in that situation ought to act. I argue, drawing on Henry James’s.

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