Relating to responsibility : essays for Tony Honore on his eightieth birthday / / edited by Peter Cane and John Gardner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784258403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-4725-6238-0; 1-280-80772-5; 9786610807727; 1-84731-027-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.03/8
• Soggetti: Law and ethics; Strict liability; Torts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Responsibility and self-control / Michael Smith -- 2. The capacity to have done otherwise: an agent-centred view / Philip Pettit -- 3.Private law and private narratives / Arthur Ripstein -- 4. Honoré on responsibility for outcomes / Stephen R. Perry -- 5. Responsibility and fault: a relational and functional approach to responsibility / Peter Cane -- 6. Obligations and outcomes in the law of torts / John Gardner -- 7. Unpacking "causation" / Jane Stapleton -- 8. Private law: between visionaries and bricoleurs / William Lucy -- 9. Appreciations and responses / Tony Honoré.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The essays in this volume,written by eight of the world's leading legal theorists and philosophers, began life as papers presented at seminars (held in Canberra and New York) devoted to the ideas of Tony Honoré, who is one of the most important legal thinkers of his generation. The focus is on issues dealt with in Honoré's recent book, Responsibility and Fault (1999), including determinism and luck, causation, outcome responsibility, and the morality of strict liability. Honoré's book, and these essays, discuss fundamental questions about the relationship between moral and legal responsibility. They explore the contribution ; that the philosophy of action and of mind can make to understanding the law."--Bloomsbury Publishing.