Why won’t the sin wash away? When thinking ethically goes awry
Is scrupulously thinking about morality in everyday life as pathological as the meticulous, repetitive behaviours of OCD?
by Jesse Summers
Jesse Summers is adjunct assistant professor of philosophy and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is Clean Hands? Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity (2019), co-authored with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
Written by Jesse Summers