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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827706003321

Titolo

Action, ethics, and responsibility / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010

ISBN

0-262-28907-5

1-282-97838-1

9786612978388

0-262-28927-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Topics in contemporary philosophy

Classificazione

08.38

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellJoseph Keim <1958->

O'RourkeMichael <1963->

SilversteinHarry <1942->

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Responsibility

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

"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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. 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 / Randolph 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.