In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P. F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent and those who hold her morally
Conversation and responsibility
β Scribed by Strawson, Galen;MacKenna, Michael
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Moral Responsibility, Conversation & Meaning
Chapter 1: Responsibility: A Conceptual Map
1. Kinds of Responsibility
2. Morally Responsible Agency
3. Moral Responsibility for Conduct
4. Holding Morally Responsible
5. Moral Responsibility, Entailment, and the Concept of Moral Responsibility
Chapter 2: Reorienting Strawson's Theory of Moral Responsibility
1. Variations on Strawson's Theory
2. Embracing and Developing Wallace's Principle (N)
3. A Normative Interpretation versus an Extreme Metaphysical Interpretation
4. Two Distinctions
5. Resisting a Strawsonian Theme: The Explanatory Role of Holding Responsible
6. A Modest Metaphysical Interpretation
Chapter 3: Moral Responsibility & Quality of Will
1. A Strawsonian Quality of Will Thesis
2. The Morally Reactive Attitudes and their Attendant Practices
3. Pleas: Reasons to Modify the Reactive Attitudes
3.1 Excuses and Justifications
3.2 Exemptions
Chapter 4: Conversation & Responsibility
1. The Intimate Link of
β¦ Subjects
Verantwoordelijkheid;Responsibility;Strawson, Galen
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