Responsibility: Volume 16, Part 2

Download or read book Responsibility: Volume 16, Part 2 written by Ellen Frankel Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address questions about responsibility that arise in moral philosophy and legal theory. Some analyze different theories of causality and human agency, scouting for satisfactory resolutions to the controversies of free will and determinism, while some look at the problem of responsibility in the legal realm. Others explore libertarian views about political freedom and accountability, while still others examine the notion of partial or divided responsibility, or the relationship between responsibility and the emotions.