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Kantian Free Riding

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Can Kantians distinguish unfair free riding from innocent coordination? If they cannot, the whole approach is flawed. This paper develops a novel solution. Free riders, as I will put it, fail to make their conduct conditional on other people’s preferences. They refuse to do their part regardless of what others prefer. It is not just that other people share the same preferences—as alternative accounts have it—but that the free rider does not care whether they do or do not share the same preferences. The same does not carry over to innocent coordination.

Source: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

DOI: 10.26556/jesp.v29i1.3449

Author: Jan Willem Wieland

Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4404865511

FWCI: 8.933

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Cited by: 3

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