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Action, Ethics, and Responsibility.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262289276
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Action, Ethics, and ResponsibilityDDC classification:
  • 170
LOC classification:
  • BJ1451
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Action, Ethics, and Responsibility -- 2 A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing -- 3 Killing John to Save Mary -- 4 Making Up One's Mind -- 5 Conscious Intentions -- 6 Locke's Compatibilism -- 7 The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom -- 8 Selective Hard Compatibilism -- 9 Manipulation and Guidance Control -- 10 Free Will -- 11 Responsibility and Practical Reason -- 12 The Metaphysics of Collective Agency -- 13 Moral Judgment and Volitional Incapacity -- 14 " So Sick He Deserves It " -- 15 Types of Terror Bombing and Shifting Responsibility -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Action, Ethics, and Responsibility -- 2 A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing -- 3 Killing John to Save Mary -- 4 Making Up One's Mind -- 5 Conscious Intentions -- 6 Locke's Compatibilism -- 7 The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom -- 8 Selective Hard Compatibilism -- 9 Manipulation and Guidance Control -- 10 Free Will -- 11 Responsibility and Practical Reason -- 12 The Metaphysics of Collective Agency -- 13 Moral Judgment and Volitional Incapacity -- 14 " So Sick He Deserves It " -- 15 Types of Terror Bombing and Shifting Responsibility -- Contributors -- Index.

Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.

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