The Irreducibility of Personal Obligation |
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Authors: | Jacob Ross |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(2) Euridis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | It is argued that claims about personal obligation (of the form “s ought to ϕ”) cannot be reduced to claims about impersonal obligation (of the form “it ought to be the case that p”). The most common
attempts at such a reduction are shown to have unacceptable implications in cases involving a plurality of agents. It is then
argued that similar problems will face any attempt to reduce personal obligation to impersonal obligation. |
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