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Relational Agency: Yes—But How Far? Vulnerability and the Moral Self

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Goering, Klein, Dougherty, and Widge (2017) have done an important service in bringing feminist philosophical theories of self, identity, autonomy, and agency into a meaningful dialogue with the bioethical debates… Click to show full abstract

Goering, Klein, Dougherty, and Widge (2017) have done an important service in bringing feminist philosophical theories of self, identity, autonomy, and agency into a meaningful dialogue with the bioethical debates surrounding the next generation of therapeutic neuroprosthetics. We share many of the theoretical commitments expressed by the authors, and we are broadly sympathetic to their project (Morar and Skorburg 2016; Beever and Morar 2016; Kelly and Morar 2016; Alfano and Skorburg 2017). We agree that relational models provide powerful theoretical frameworks for understanding the many ways in which agents

Keywords: vulnerability moral; relational agency; agency yes; far vulnerability; yes far; agency

Journal Title: AJOB Neuroscience
Year Published: 2017

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