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Title Action, ethics, and responsibility / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages)
Series Topics in contemporary philosophy
Topics in contemporary philosophy.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Responsibility -- Congresses
Ethics -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism.
Ethics
Responsibility
Verantwortung
Metaphysik
Ethik
Handlungstheorie
Verantwortung.
Ethik.
Metaphysik.
Handlungstheorie.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-
O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-
Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (9th : 2006 : Pullman, Wash.; Moscow, Idaho)
ISBN 9780262289276
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