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This thinker wrote that philosophy is an ineffective form of public service in the foreword to a book whose chapter “War and Massacre” was inspired by American atrocities in Vietnam. An essay in this philosopher’s collection Mortal Questions begins by quoting (15[1])Kant’s claim, “A good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes.” The distinction between “agent-relative” and “agent-neutral” values originates from a book by this philosopher whose thesis is that prudential self-interested reasoning leads to deontological conclusions, called The (*) Possibility of Altruism. A paper by this philosopher that divides its title (10[1])concept (-5[1])into resultant, circumstantial, causal, and constitutive forms borrows the example of a truck driver who does not feel culpable for accidentally running over a child from Bernard Williams. For 10 points, “Moral Luck” is by what philosopher from NYU? ■END■ (0[3])

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