Action, ethics, and responsibility
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
c2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Topics in contemporary philosophy
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| Beschreibung: | "A Bradford book.". - "The essays in this volume derive from presentations given at the ninth annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC), held March 31-April 2, 2006 in Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho"--Acknowledgments. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 307 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0262014734 026228927X 0262514842 9780262014731 9780262289276 9780262514842 |