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Author Moore, Michael S., 1943-

Title Causation and responsibility : an essay in law, morals, and metaphysics / Michael S. Moore
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 605 pages) : illustrations
Contents The role of causation in moral and legal responsibility -- Presuppositions about the nature of causation by legal doctrines -- The first blind alley : the attempt to replace proximate causation with culpability as a prerequisite for legal liability -- The legal presupposition of there being 'intervening causes' -- The metaphysics of causal relata -- The metaphysics of the causal relation
Summary The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-590) and index
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Subject Proximate cause (Law)
Causation (Criminal law)
Causation (Criminal law) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Liability (Law)
Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
metaphysics.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Causation (Criminal law)
Liability (Law)
Metaphysics
Proximate cause (Law)
Ethik
Verantwortlichkeit
Unmittelbarkeit
Kausalität
Strafrecht
Verantwortung
Recht
Verursachung
Causaliteit.
Verantwoordelijkheid.
Strafrecht.
Onrechtmatige daad.
Metafysica.
Verantwortung.
Kausalität -- (Recht)
Ethik.
Kausalität.
Verantwortung.
Recht.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191555169
0191555169
019171965X
9780191719653
0191021504
9780191021503