The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays

321 Pages·2015·2.544 MB·English

by  Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, Angela M. Smith

The Nature of Moral Responsibility

The Nature of Moral Responsibility
New Essays
Edited by Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, and Angela M. Smith
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The nature of moral responsibility : new essays / edited by Randolph Clarke,
Michael McKenna, and Angela M. Smith.
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1. Responsibility. I. Clarke, Randolph K., editor.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  vii
Notes on Contributors  ix
Introduction  1
Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, and Angela M. Smith
Part I | The Nature of Moral Responsibility: Some
Frameworks
1. The Strains of Involvement  19
Neal A. Tognazzini
2. Varieties of Moral Responsibility  45
Michael J. Zimmerman
3. The Alethic Conception of Moral Responsibility  65
Gideon Rosen
4. Forms and Conditions of Responsibility  89
T. M. Scanlon
Part II | Quality of Will and the Deep Self
5. Ecumenical Attributability  115
David Shoemaker
6. Huckleberry Finn Revisited: Inverse Akrasia and Moral Ignorance  141
Nomy Arpaly
7. Appraisability, Attributability, and Moral Agency  157
Julia Driver
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8. Dual-Process Theory and Moral Responsibility  175
Holly M. Smith
Part III | Responsibility in Practice: Communication,
Substantive Responsibility, and Moral Desert
9. Blame, Communication, and Morally Responsible Agency  211
Coleen Macnamara
10. Responsibility, Conversation, and Communication  237
George Sher
11. Contractualism and the Roots of Responsibility  251
Rahul Kumar
12. A Notion of Moral Responsibility Immune to the Threat from Causal
Determination  281
Derk Pereboom
Suggested Further Reading  297
Index  301
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, we want to thank our contributors for the essays they
have written for this volume. We’re honored to be able to present their fine work.
Our thanks, as well, to our editors at OUP, Peter Ohlin and Lucy Randall. Further,
we very much appreciate the support we’ve received, while working on this volume,
from the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, the
Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at Washington and Lee University, the University
Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and Philosophy Departments
at Florida State University, the University of Arizona, and Washington and Lee
University. Finally, thanks to Sara Kolmes for help with manuscript preparation.
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Notes on Contributors
Nomy Arpaly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.
Julia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Rahul Kumar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University.
Coleen Macnamara is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
California, Riverside.
Derk Pereboom is Susan Linn Sage Professor in Philosophy and Ethics at Cornell
University.
Gideon Rosen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
T. M. Scanlon is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and
Civil Polity at Harvard University.
George Sher is the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University.
David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the
Murphy Institute at Tulane University.
Holly M. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey.
Neal A. Tognazzini is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington
University.
Michael J. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
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