ISBN:
9789400718784
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VI, 254p. 2 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 27
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Moral responsibility
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Ethics
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Philosophy of law
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medicine Philosophy
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Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Ethics
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Philosophy of law
;
medicine Philosophy
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Philosophy of mind
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Responsibility
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Free will and determinism
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 2009
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Moralische Verantwortung
Abstract:
It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza - and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett - defended responsibility from the threat of determinism. But defending responsibility from determinism is a potentially endless and largely negative enterprise; it can go on for as long as dissenting voices remain, and although such work strengthens the theoretical foundations of these theories, it won't necessarily build anything on top of those foundations, nor will it move these theories into new territory or explain how to apply them to practical contexts. To this end, the papers
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Beyond Free Will and Determinism; References; 2 A Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Six Concepts1; 2.3 Relations Between These Six Responsibility Concepts7; 2.3.1 Outcome Responsibility from Causal and Role Responsibility; 2.3.2 Capacity Responsibility to Causal and Role Responsibility; 2.3.3 Liability Responsibility from Outcome and Virtue Responsibility; 2.3.4 Norm Setting and Substantive Evaluations; 2.4 The Utility of the STRC; 2.4.1 Fifteen Sources of Disputes About Responsibility
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2.4.2 A Procedure for Resolving Disputes About Responsibility2.5 The STRC in Action; 2.5.1 Luck Egalitarianism; 2.5.2 Law Suits; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 The Relation Between Forward-Looking and Backward-Looking Responsibility; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Notions of Responsibility; 3.3 Responsibility as a Relational Concept; 3.4 The Relation Between Forward-Looking and Backward-Looking Responsibility: A Suggestion; 3.5 Blameworthiness; 3.6 Accountability; 3.7 Conclusions; References; 4 Beyond Belief and Desire: or, How to Be Orthonomous; 4.1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2 Beyond the Standard Belief-Desire Account of the Explanation of Action4.3 The Nature of Responsibility; 4.4 Implications; References; 5 Blame, Reasons and Capacities; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The CO Condition; 5.3 Capacities and Possible Worlds; 5.4 An Example; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Please Drink Responsibly: Can the Responsibility of Intoxicated Offenders Be Justified by the Tracing Principle?; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Components of Criminal Liability: Elements of a Crime; 6.3 Responsibility, Liability and Defences; 6.4 Voluntary or Self-Induced Intoxication
Description / Table of Contents:
6.5 The Fault of Intoxication6.6 What Makes Intoxication Voluntary or Self-Induced?; References; 7 The Moral Significance of Unintentional Omission: Comparing Will-Centered and Non-will-centered Accounts of Moral Responsibility; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Moral Blameworthiness and Unintentional Omission; 7.3 Volitionalism; 7.4 Problems with the Volitionalist's Use of the Tracing Strategy; 7.5 Choosing Between Volitionalism and Non-will-centered Approaches; 7.6 Conclusion; References; 8 Desert, Responsibility and Luck Egalitarianism; 8.1 Desert and Responsibility; 8.1.1 Desert: The Basics
Description / Table of Contents:
8.1.2 Feinberg and Rawls8.1.3 Against the Responsibility View; 8.1.4 The Concept of Desert; 8.1.5 Conclusion; 8.2 Desert and Luck Egalitarianism; 8.2.1 How to Determine the Consequences One Is Liable For; 8.2.2 How to Derive Liability Responsibility from Outcome Responsibility; 8.2.3 Two Questions or One?; 8.2.4 Luck Egalitarianism; 8.3 Conclusion; References; 9 Communicative Revisionism; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Justifying Desert in Contractualist Terms; 9.3 Determinism and Theories of Punishment
Description / Table of Contents:
9.4 Finding a Reasonable Standard for Determining the Mode and Scope of Punishment as Communication
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1878-4
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