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Action, ethics, and responsibility /
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 la...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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| Series: | Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Action, ethics, and responsibility : a framework / Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
- A reappraisal of the doctrine of doing and allowing / David K. Chan
- Killing John to save Mary : a defense of the moral distinction between killing and letting die / Helen Frowe
- Making up one's mind / Randolph Clarke
- Conscious intentions / Alfred R. Mele
- Locke's compatibilism : suspension of desire or suspension of determinism? / Charles T. Wolfe
- The fall of the mind argument and some lessons about freedom / E.J. Coffman and Donald Smith
- Selective hard compatibilism / Paul Russell
- Manipulation and guidance control : a reply to Long / John Martin Fischer
- Free will : some bad news / Saul Smilansky
- Responsibility and practical reason / George Sher
- The metaphysics of collective agency / Todd Jones
- Moral judgment and volitional incapacity / Antti Kauppinen
- "So sick he deserves it" : desert, dangerousness, and character in the context of capital sentencing / Robert F. Schopp
- Types of terror bombing and shifting responsibility / Frances Kamm.