Action, Ethics, and Responsibility Contributor(s): Campbell, Joseph Keim (Editor), O'Rourke, Michael (Editor), Silverstein, Harry S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262514842 ISBN-13: 9780262514842 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Criticism |
Dewey: 170 |
LCCN: 2010006928 |
Series: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.08" W x 9.14" (0.93 lbs) 316 pages |
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Publisher Description: Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law. 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. After a broad, framing introduction by the volume's editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the free will problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference, if any, between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for making sense of collective responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility. The contributors include such distinguished authors as Alfred R. Mele, John Martin Fischer, George Sher, and Frances Kamm, as well as important rising scholars. Taken together, the essays in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility offer a breadth of perspectives that is unmatched by other treatments of the topic. Contributors |
Contributor Bio(s): O'Rourke, Michael: - Michael O'Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.Campbell, Joseph Keim: - Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.Silverstein, Harry S.: - Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.Silverstein, Harry S.: - Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.Campbell, Joseph Keim: - Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.O'Rourke, Michael: - Michael O'Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. |