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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Responsibility; Ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CampbellJoseph Keim <1958-> O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Action, ethics, and responsibility
• ISBN: 0-262-28907-5; 1-282-97838-1; 9786612978388; 0-262-28927-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458632003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in contemporary philosophy.