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This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on "guidance control." This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an account of both components. The authors go on to offer a sustained defense of the thesis that moral responsibility is compatible with causal determinism. This major study will interest moral philosophers, legal theorists, and those in religious studies concerned with the issue of moral responsibility.
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Ginet
This book offers the most thorough and well-worked-out compatibilist analysis of moral responsibility that I'm aware of. Its style strikes a nice balance between readibility and rigor and should be quite accessible to thinkers who are not already well-versed in the philosophical literature about responsibility. -- Carl Ginet, Cornell UniversityJules Coleman
Responsibility and Control is a work of enormous breadth, depth and significance. It is a careful, creative and thorough treatment of the concept of moral responsibility. In many ways, the most systematic discussion of moral responsibility currently available and very likely the best as well. -- Jules Coleman, Yale Law SchoolMichael Bratman
...presents in a clear way a plausible, general approach to foundational issues about moral responsibility. -- Michael Bratman, Stanford UniversityProduct Details
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Moral responsibility: the concepts and challenges; 2. Moral responsibility for actions: weak reasons-responsiveness; 3. Moral responsibility for actions: moderate reasons-responsiveness; 4. Responsibility for consequences; 5. Responsibility for omissions; 6. The direct argument for incompatibilism; 7. Responsibility and history; 8. Taking responsibility; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography.