Causation and responsibility
The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2009, c2009
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine |
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Physical Description: | xxvi, 605 p. ill |
ISBN: | 9780191719653 019171965X |