| The Mental Basis of Responsibility Contributor(s): Glannon, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138739863 ISBN-13: 9781138739864 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Psychology | Psychopathology - General |
| Dewey: 170.42 |
| Series: Routledge Revivals |
| Physical Information: 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |