Responsibility: Volume 16, Part 2

by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521654500
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/28/1999
Series:	Social Philosophy and Policy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

1. Causation and responsibility Michael S. Moore; 2. Negligence Kenneth W. Simons; 3. Responsibility and consent: the Libertarian's problems with freedom of contract Leo Katz; 4. The irrelevance of responsibility Roderick T. Long; 5. On responsibility in science and law John Staddon; 6. Responsibility and the abuse excuse Michael Stocker; 7. Why citizens should vote: a causal responsibility approach Alvin I. Goldman; 8. Institutionally divided moral responsibility Henry S. Richardson; 9. Fate, fatalism, and agency in stoicism Susan Sauve Meyer; 10. Ultimate responsibility and dumb luck Alfred R. Mele; 11. Taking responsibility for our emotions Nancy Sherman.