Action, Ethics, and Responsibility
$52.41
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2010
Summary
Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law.Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the “free will” problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives-metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the volume’s editors, the cont…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262514842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262514842 |
| Author: | Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Action, Ethics, and Responsibility |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The editors can be congratulated on having put together a stimulating collection ofpapers on a debate which, as the quality and intensity of the discussions shows, is far fromexhausted.
Carefully argued and persuasive…the papers offer a wealth of problems, arguments, views, and perspectives.
* Analysis *About The Author
Joseph Keim Campbell
Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.Michael O’Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.Michael O’Rourke is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.
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