Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 4

by Shoemaker, David

• ISBN13: 9780198805618
• ISBN10: 0198805616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-10-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
DT What does it mean to be an agent?
DT What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?
DT What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?
DT What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
DT How do moral agents develop? How does this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of moral judgment and responsibility?
DT What do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility?
OSAR thus straddles the areas of moral philosophy and philosophy of action, but also draws from a diverse range of cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology proper (including experimental and developmental), philosophy of psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics, neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and (inter)actors, embodied practical agents negotiating (sometimes unsuccessfully) a world of moral and legal norms.

Author Biography

David Shoemaker, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans

David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author or co-author of two books and thirty-five articles, many of them having to do with the issues of agency, responsibility, and personal identity.

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Shoemaker
1. Strong-Willed Akrasia, Vida Yao
2. Practical Necessity and Moral Heroism, Kyle Fruh
3. Intending, Settling, and Relying, Facundo Alonso
4. Entitlement to Reasons for Action, Abraham Sesshu Roth
5. Free Will Pessimism, Paul Russell
6. Responsibility, Regret, and Protest, Derk Pereboom
7. Explaining Away Epistemic Skepticism About Culpability, Gunnar Bjornsson
8. Causal Proportions and Moral Responsibility, Sara Bernstein
9. The Path to Completion, David Brink
10. Wronging, Blame, and Forgiveness, Julia Driver
11. Implicit Bias, Responsibility, and Moral Ecology, Manuel R. Vargas
12. Respect and the Efficacy of Blame, George Tsai