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  1. For an overview of methods for understanding deep neural models, see Montavon et al. (2018) and Gunning (2019).

  2. Moral particularism criticizes rule-based ethical theory, but its criticism is not that rules are not used in moral reasoning, but that one-size-fits all rules are practically bad. But rule-based or logic-based ethical theory never submits such a claim. See Smith and Dubbink (2011).

  3. Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin: Reimer, later DeGruyter, 1910ff.) 5:161.33–6; translation by Paul Guyer (1992).

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Kim, T.W. Flawed Like Us and the Starry Moral Law: Review of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan. J Bus Ethics 170, 875–879 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04758-8

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