Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

✍ Scribed by John Martin Fischer (editor); Mark Ravizza (editor)

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

FischerJohn Martin:

John Martin Fischer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. With Mark Ravizza, he co-edited Ethics: Problems and Principles.RavizzaMark:

Mark Ravizza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. With John Martin Fischer, he co-edited Ethics: Problems and Principles.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I THE CONCEPT OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
1. Freedom and Resentment
2. On "Freedom and Resentment"
3. The Importance of Free Will
4. Responsibility and the Limits of Evil: Variations on a Strawsonian Theme
Part II HIERARCHY, RATIONALITY, AND THE "REAL SELF"
5. The Real Self View (In Which a Nonautonomous Conception of Free Will and Responsibility Is Examined and Criticized)
6. Identification and Wholeheartedness
7. What Happens When Someone Acts?
8. Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will
Part III MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES
9. Intellect, Will, and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
10. Responsibility, Agent-Causation, and Freedom: An Eighteenth-Century View
11. What We Are Morally Responsible For
12. Incompatibilism without the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
13. Causing and Being Responsible for What Is Inevitable
14. Responsibility for Consequences
Bibliography
Contributors
Index