Responsibility,9780521654500

Responsibility

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780521654500
ISBN10: 0521654505
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-06-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The essays in this volume address questions about responsibility that arise in moral philosophy and legal theory. Some analyze different theories of causality and human agency, scouting for satisfactory resolutions to the controversies of free will and determinism, while some look at the problem of responsibility in the legal realm. Others explore libertarian views about political freedom and accountability, while still others examine the notion of partial or divided responsibility, or the relationship between responsibility and the emotions.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Acknowledgments xiv
Contributors xv
Causation and Responsibility
1(51)
Michael S. Moore
Negligence
52(42)
Kenneth W. Simons
Responsibility and Consent: The Libertarian's Problems with Freedom of Contract
94(24)
Leo Katz
The Irrelevance of Responsibility
118(28)
Roderick T. Long
On Responsibility in Science and Law
146(29)
John Staddon
Responsibility and the Abuse Excuse
175(26)
Michael Stocker
Why Citizens Should Vote: A Causal Responsibility Approach
201(17)
Alvin I. Goldman
Institutionally Divided Moral Responsibility
218(32)
Henry S. Richardson
Fate, Fatalism, and Agency in Stoicism
250(24)
Susan Sauve Meyer
Ultimate Responsibility and Dumb Luck
274(20)
Alfred R. Mele
Taking Responsibility for Our Emotions
294(31)
Nancy Sherman
Index 325

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