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Here is a list of the terms and definitions on each card.

Card 1:
Term: Moral agent
Definition: A moral agent can be assigned praise or blame, and can understand moral principles, respond to moral reasons, and be held morally accountable.
Card 2:
Term: Causally responsible
Definition: An agent is causally responsible for an action and its consequences if her freely made decision brings about the action.
Card 3:
Term: Sufficient condition
Definition: A sufficient condition is enough to produce the outcome, but is not always required to produce the outcome.
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Term: Necessary condition
Definition: A necessary condition is required to produce the outcome, but is not always enough to produce the outcome by itself.
Card 5:
Term: Reductionism regarding corporate accountability
Definition: Reductionism regarding corporate accountability is the theory that we cannot hold a corporation to be morally accountable and that all moral accountability lies with individuals within the corporation.
Card 6:
Term: Holism regarding corporate accountability
Definition: Holism regarding corporate accountability is the theory that the corporation as a whole is capable of moral agency, and thus can be morally accountable for the deeds of its agents and employees.
Card 7:
Term: Corporate character
Definition: Corporate character is a corporation’s disposition to behave in ways that we can judge to be virtuous or vicious, which are determined by its ethical codes, compliance-mechanisms, climate, etc.
Card 8:
Term: Distribution of moral accountability
Definition: The distribution of moral accountability is a method of assigning moral accountability within the corporation without taking away the moral accountability of the corporation as a whole.
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Term: Predictive role of determining causal responsibility
Definition: The predictive role of determining causal responsibility is the use by a moral agent of knowledge of cause and effect to foresee the results of her decision.
Card 10:
Term: Retrospective role of determining causal responsibility
Definition: The retrospective role of determining causal responsibility is the use, after implementation of the decision, of knowledge of causation to assign moral accountability (praise and blame) to the correct agent.


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