Reason and Responsibility

• Author : Joel Feinberg,Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Release : 18 October 2021

The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. Now a part of Wadsworth's new Advantage Series and issued for the first time in a paperback format at a reduced price, this new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough

• Author : Joel Feinberg,Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Release : 18 October 2021

Contains readings that cover centuries of thought and wisdom. This book includes various issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and ethics.

• Author : Dorothy I. Fennell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 1965

• Author : Joel Feinberg
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 2021

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 2021

• Author : Joel Feinberg
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 1965

• Author : Judith Katz Hecker
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 October 1975

• Author : Feinberg,Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
• Release : 01 February 2007

• Author : Michael McKenna
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 28 March 2012

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 responsible is similar to the relation between a speaker and her audience. A responsible agent's actions are bearers of meaning--agent meaning--just as a speaker's utterances are bearers of speaker meaning. Agent meaning

• Author : David O. Brink
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 01 June 2021

Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.

• Author : Ursula Coope
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 16 April 2020

The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves--they are self-determining, self-constituting, and self-knowing. Neoplatonist philosophers argue that such freedom is only possible for non-bodily things. The human soul is free insofar as it rises above bodily things and engages in intellection, but when it turns its desires to bodily things, it is drawn under the sway of fate

• Author : Alan Norrie
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 09 October 2014

Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and therefore systematically structured around conflicting elements. Updated extensively to include two new chapters on loss of control and self defence and with an extended treatment of offence and defence, this new edition combines challenging

• Author : Tunis Romein
• Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
• Release : 13 January 2015

This book reveals the sources of the disquiet prevailing among educators over the apparent failure of the public school system to develop moral responsibility in America's youth. The doctrine of separation of church and state has made sectarian religious training illegal in public schools, and Tunis Romein shows that the task of providing moral guidance, suddenly thrust upon educators, has disclosed their deep schisms in educational philosophy -- basic contradictions which have split American education from top to bottom. Romein

• Author : Jeanette Kennett
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 18 October 2021

Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement? Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between recklessness, weakness of willand compulsion collapse. This would threaten our ordinary notion of self-control and undermine our practice of holding each other responsible for moral failure. So a clear and plausible account of how weakness of will and self-control

• Author : Anthony Carty,Janne Nijman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 09 February 2018

The history of ideas on rule of law for world order is a fascinating one, as revealed in this comparative study of both Eastern and Western traditions. This book discerns 'rule of law as justice' conceptions alternative to the positivist conceptions of the liberal internationalist rule of law today. The volume begins by revisiting early-modern European roots of rule of law for world order thinking. In doing so it looks to Northern Humanism and to natural law, in the sense