Moral Responsibility Beyond Free Will and Determinism

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vincent, Nicole A. (Editor), van de Poel, Ibo (Editor), van den Hoven, Jeroen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts
  • 3 The Relation Between Forward-Looking and Backward-Looking Responsibility
  • 4 Beyond Belief and Desire: or, How to be Orthonomous
  • 5 Blame, Reasons and Capacities
  • 6 Please Drink Responsibly: Can the Responsibility of Intoxicated Offenders be Justified by the Tracing Principle?
  • 7 The Moral Significance of Unintentional Omission: Comparing Will-Centered and Non-Will-Centered Accounts of Moral Responsibility
  • 8 Desert, Responsibility and Luck Egalitarianism
  • 9 Communicative Revisionism
  • 10 Moral Responsibility and Jointly Determined Consequences
  • 11 Joint Responsibility Without Individual Control: Applying the Explanation Hypothesis
  • 12 Climate Change and Collective Responsibility
  • 13 Collective Responsibility, Epistemic Action and Climate Change