Action, Ethics, and Responsibility
Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
Abstract
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the “free will” problem. By contrast, the chapters in this book view responsibility from a variety of perspectives: Metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the book’s editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the “free will” problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference, if any, between responsib ... More
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the “free will” problem. By contrast, the chapters in this book view responsibility from a variety of perspectives: Metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the book’s editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the “free will” problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference, if any, between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for making sense of “collective” responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility.
Keywords:
responsibility,
free will,
metaphysics,
ethics,
action theory,
philosophy of law,
knowledge,
ignorance,
metaphysical requirements
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780262014731 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 |
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014731.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Joseph Keim Campbell, editor
Michael O'Rourke, editor
Harry S. Silverstein, editor
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