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The Mental Basis of Responsibility
Contributor(s): Glannon, Walter (Author)
ISBN: 1138739863     ISBN-13: 9781138739864
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $152.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Psychology | Psychopathology - General
Dewey: 170.42
Series: Routledge Revivals
Physical Information: 166 pages
 
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This title was first published in 2002: This book is an analysis of the ways in which mental states ground attributions of responsibility to persons. Particular features of the book include: attention to the agent's epistemic capacity for beliefs about the foreseeable consequences of actions and omissions; attention to the essential role of emotions in prudential and moral reasoning; a conception of personal identity that can justify holding persons responsible at later times for actions performed at earlier times; an emphasis on neurobiology as the science that should inform our thinking about free will and responsibility; and the melding of literature on free will and responsibility in contemporary analytic philosophy with legal cases, abnormal psychology, neurology and psychiatry, which offers a richer texture to the general debate on the relevant issues.