At the moment, my primary project is the articulation and defense of a holist meta-ethics -- an account of how certain highly structured groups qualify in their own right as moral agents. I argue that these "corporate agents " have their own beliefs, desires, and intentions and the ability to act on them. Further, they have free will, reactive attitudes, the capacity for other-regarding action, and various other capacities relevant to normative competence. As a direct result, they have their own moral obligations -- distinct from those of their members -- and their own moral responsibility. Their lack of phenomenal consciousness is no hin…

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