What is a "core case" in moral philosophy?
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What is a "core case" in moral philosophy?
Here's an example I've run across. Michael Bratman has an article, "Shared Valuing and Frameworks for Practical Reasoning" in the book, Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Oxford 2004)in which he offers the "core case" for a context of common knowledge:
(a) we each intend
(i) that we give weight to R in relevant shared deliberation and
(ii) that (i) proceed by way of each of our(a)(i) intentions and their meshing subplans.
(b) there is mutual interdependence between each of our (a) intentions. (pp. 21-22)
So, what's "core case" mean? Help appreciated!
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