Action, ethics, and responsibility
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Action, ethics, and responsibility
（Bradford book）（Topics in contemporary philosophy）
MIT Press, c2010
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- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"The essays in this volume derive from presentations given at the ninth annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC), held March 31-April 2, 2006 in Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho"--Acknowledgments
Contents of Works
- Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
- A reappraisal of the doctrine of doing and allowing / David K. Chan
- Killing John to save Mary : a defense of the moral distinction between killing and letting die / Helen Frowe
- Making up one's mind / Randolphe Clarke
- Conscious intentions / Alfred R. Mele
- Locke's compatibilism : suspension of desire or suspension of determinism? / Charles T. Wolfe
- The fall of the mind argument and some lessons about freedom / E.J. Coffman and Donald Smith
- Selective hard compatibilism / Paul Russell
- Manipulation and guidance control : a reply to Long / John Martin Fischer
- Free will : some bad news / Saul Smilansky
- Responsibility and practical reason / George Sher
- The metaphysics of collective agency / Todd Jones
- Moral judgment and volitional incapacity / Antti Kauppinen
- "So sick he deserves it" : desert, dangerousness, and character in the context of capital sentencing / Robert F. Schopp
- Types of terror bombing and shifting responsibility / Frances Kamm
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Description
Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will" problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives-metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the volume's editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the "free will" problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference, if any, between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for making sense of "collective" responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility. The contributors include such distinguished authors as Alfred R. Mele, John Martin Fischer, George Sher, and Frances Kamm, as well as important rising scholars. Taken together, the essays in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility offer a breadth of perspectives that is unmatched by other treatments of the topic.
Contributors
Joseph Keim Campbell, David Chan, Randolph Clarke, E.J. Coffman, John Martin Fischer, Helen Frowe, Todd Jones, Frances Kamm, Antti Kauppinen, Alfred R. Mele, Michael O'Rourke, Paul Russell, Robert F. Schopp, George Sher, Harry S. Silverstein, Saul Smilansky, Donald Smith, Charles T. Wolfe
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