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Responsibility and Control John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside)

Responsibility and Control By John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside)

Summary

Provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility which explores the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions.

Responsibility and Control Summary

Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside)

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.

Responsibility and Control Reviews

' ... the most likely sophisticated of its kind to date and is likely to have considerable influence on future philosophical discussions of both moral and legal responsibility.' The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Moral responsibility: the concepts and challenges; 2. Moral responsibility for actions: weak reasons-responsiveness; 3. Moral responsibility for actions: moderate reasons-responsiveness; 4. Responsibility for consequences; 5. Responsibility for omissions; 6. The direct argument for incompatibilism; 7. Responsibility and history; 8. Taking responsibility; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Additional information

GOR011133372
9780521480550
0521480558
Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer (University of California, Riverside)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
19980213
287
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