Over the years, I have benefited from innumerable questions,
comments, and discussions. I particularly wish to thank Carla Bagnoli,
Jake Beck, Paul Bernier, Ian Blaustein, Frédéric Bouchard, Michael
Brady, John Broome, Krister Bykvist, Clotilde Calabi, Åsa Carlsson,
Roberto Casati, John Christman, Josep Corbi, Florian Cova, Christopher
Cowley, Justin D’Arms, Nigel DeSouza, Jérôme Dokic, Luc Faucher,
Chloë Fitzgerald, Christel Fricke, Marilyn Friedman, Olav Gjelskvik,
Bruno Guindon, Joe Heath, Bennett Helm, Louis-Philippe Hodgson,
David Horst, Tom Hurka, Kent Hurtig, Karen Jones, Uriah Kriegel,
Rae Langton, Federico Lauria, Daniel Laurier, Catriona Mackenzie,
Colin MacLeod, Barry Maguire, Heidi Maibom, Kate Manne, Olivier
Massin, Anne Meylan, Martin Montminy, Bob Myers, Mark Nelson,
Vanessa Nurock, Graham Oddie, Jonas Olson, Marina Oshana, Claude
Panaccio, Antoine Panaïoti, Philip Pettit, Christian Piller, David Pineda,
Mark Piper, Josep Lluis Prades, Huw Price, Andrew Reisner, Sophie
Rietti, Amélie Rorty, Gideon Rosen, Andrea Scarantino, Tim Schroeder,
Andrew Seppielli, David Sosa, Gopal Sreenivasan, Daniel Star, Natalie
Stoljar, Cass Sunstein, PatrickTurmel, Joey van Weelden, David
Velleman, Andrea Veltman, Augustín Vincente, and Benjamin Wald.
I owe a special debt to Ronnie de Sousa for immediately reading and
commenting on whatever piece of work I happened to send him, to Sarah
Stroud for her constant support and insightful questions, to Michele
Palmira for his advice in epistemological matters, to Mauro Rossi for his
readiness to discuss tricky points, to Stéphane Lemaire for disagreeing
with me over and over, to Sebastián Figueroa Rubio for his advice on
responsibility theories, to Julien Deonna for his comments on Chapter 1
and for discussions of most of the material, to Fabrice Teroni for having
commented on Chapters 3, 4, and 5, as well as for lots of discussions, to
Hichem Naar, who organized a reading group on the manuscript and
provided helpful feedback on the completefinal draft, to Michael
Zimmerman for his comments on Chapter 4, to the late Peter Goldie
for his comments on the paper on which Chapter 3 is based, to Michael
Lacewing, who recently revealed to me that he was Reader B, and whose
detailed remarks greatly helped me to revise the manuscript, to Adam
Morton for sprinkling the text with helpful suggestions under the rather
suitable identity of Reader A, andfinally to Ruwen Ogien, for his
friendship and his unfailing encouragements.
xvi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
OUP CORRECTED PROOF –FINAL, 7/6/2016, SPi