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The right not to know and the obligation to know
- Correspondence to Dr Ben Davies, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; benjamin.davies{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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The right not to know and the obligation to know
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- Received December 10, 2019
- Revised January 14, 2020
- Accepted January 20, 2020
- First published April 29, 2020.
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May 14, 2020
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