Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral ResponsibilityCambridge University Press, 1998 - 277 Seiten This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on "guidance control." This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an account of both components. The authors go on to offer a sustained defense of the thesis that moral responsibility is compatible with causal determinism. This major study will interest moral philosophers, legal theorists, and those in religious studies concerned with the issue of moral responsibility. |
Inhalt
Moral Responsibility The Concept and the Challenges | 1 |
Moral Responsibility for Actions Weak ReasonsResponsiveness | 28 |
Responsibility for Actions Moderate ReasonsResponsiveness | 62 |
Responsibility for Consequences | 92 |
Responsibility for Omissions | 123 |
The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism | 151 |
Responsibility and History | 170 |
Taking Responsibility | 207 |
Conclusion | 240 |
Bibliography | 261 |
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account of guidance account of moral actual sequence actual-sequence mechanism agent is morally alternative possibilities approach to moral appropriate argued argument Aristotelian Society Assassin avalanche behavior believe bility bodily movement causal determinism Chapter claim compatibilist condition consequence consequence-particulars consequence-universal consider current time-slice Essay fact Forest Ranger Frankfurt Galen Strawson Ginet guidance control Harry Frankfurt held morally responsible historical hold fixed incompatibilism individual insofar intuitive Inwagen issues Joel Feinberg John Martin Fischer kind of mechanism manipulation mayor is shot mecha Missile moderately reasons-responsive moral responsibil nism nonreflective notion Nozick obtains one's otherwise outer path person Peter van Inwagen Philosophical plausible possible world practical reasoning present principle reactive attitudes reasons-responsive mechanism regulative control relevant requires responsibility for actions responsible for failing responsive to reasons Robert Nozick Sam's save the child shoot the mayor simply sort of control sponsibility sufficient reason taking responsibility tion Transfer Transfer Principle triggering event University Press