民间关于道德代理人的概念

Whether a particular entity is a 'moral agent' determines the sense in which its behaviour is morally evaluable. Theories of moral agency aim to capture and explain commonsense distinctions between the possession or absence of moral agency across different kinds of being. But little is known about the ordinary concept of moral agency, its application across different entities, and its relation to the more specific notion of moral responsibility. In this paper, we investigate the folk concept of moral agency through philosophical analysis and two empirical studies. We draw conceptual distinctio