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Title The spectrum of responsibility / [edited by] Peter A. French.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, c1991.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  170 Sp31 1991    ---  Available
Description vi, 327 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Nicomachean ethics, book 3 and book 5 / Aristotle -- A plea for excuses ; Three ways of spilling ink / J. L. Austin -- The vulgar notion of responsibility / F. H. Bradley -- Of liberty and necessity / David Hume -- On the irrelevance of free-will to moral responsibility and the vacuity of the latter / W. I. Matson -- Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility / Harry G. Frankfurt -- Types of responsibility / Kurt Baier -- The straight rule of responsibility / J. L. Mackie -- Fishing the red herrings out of the sea of moral responsibility / Peter A. French -- The moral and legal responsibility of the bad Samaritan / Joel Feinberg -- Responsibility and failure / John Martin Fischer -- On blaming / Lionel Kenner -- Blameworthiness and obligation / Richard B. Brandt -- Freedom and responsibility / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Responsibility for self / Charles Taylor -- Negligence, mens rea, and criminal responsibility / H. L. A. Hart -- Criminal insanity / Herbert Fingarette -- Collective responsibility / D. E. Cooper -- Can a random collection of individuals be morally responsible? / Virginia Held -- Sharing responsibility / Michael J. Zimmerman -- The corporation as a moral person / Peter A. French -- Corporativism / John Ladd -- Vicarious agency and corporate responsibility / Larry May.
Subject Responsibility.
Added Author French, Peter A.
ISBN 0312034962
9780312034962
Standard No. NZ1 3945957
AU@ 000007911699

 
    
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