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Moral Responsibility and Ontology

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Editors:
  1. Ton Beld

    1. Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 7)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ton van den Beld
      Pages 1-9

  3. Moral Responsibility and Ontology: Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3
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    2. Moral Responsibility and Ontology

      • Peter van Inwagen
      Pages 11-23

    3. Moral Responsibility and the Practical Point of View

      • R. Jay Wallace
      Pages 25-47

  4. Responsibility and Personal Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N5-N5
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    2. Collective Responsibility

      • Keith Graham
      Pages 49-61

    3. Personal Identity and Responsibility for Past Actions

      • Marc Slors
      Pages 63-76

    4. Personal Identity and Quasi-Responsibility

      • Eric Wiland
      Pages 77-87

  5. Incompatibilist Arguments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N7-N7
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    2. Does Moral Responsibility Presuppose Alternate Possibilities?

      • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
      Pages 89-101

    3. Fischer on Alternative Possibilities and Responsibility

      • David Mackie
      Pages 103-112

    4. Freedom and Blameworthiness

      • Maureen Sie
      Pages 113-128

    5. Moral Responsibility and Wolf’s Ability

      • Christopher Mark Grau
      Pages 129-141

    6. Moral Responsibility and Agent Causation

      • René van Woudenberg
      Pages 143-153

  6. Compatibilist Positions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages N9-N9
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    2. On the Value of Ultimate Responsibility

      • Ish Haji
      Pages 155-170

    3. Contracting Responsibility

      • James Lenman
      Pages 171-182

    4. Blaming, Understanding and Justification

      • Kevin Magill
      Pages 183-197

    5. Compatibilist-Fatalism

      • Paul Russell
      Pages 199-218
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About this book

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998. It contains a selection of the revised versions of the papers discussed at the conference. The theme is in need of some clarification. In the first place, 'responsi­ bility' is an ambiguous term. Although addition of the adjective 'moral' reduces the variety of its meanings (for example, moral responsibility cannot be confused with causal responsibility), different interpretations are still possible. Thus, the care of dependent children is a parental moral responsibility. That is, parents have the moral obligation to care for their children. It is their moral task, or role, to do so. If they fail to fulfil this obligation, they might be morally responsible for the result of this failure. Here, another meaning of 'moral responsibility' is involved: the children's misery might be imputed to their parents. They may be liable to blame. Moral responsibility in this sense is what the conference was and this book is about. It is about the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Ton Beld

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Moral Responsibility and Ontology

  • Editors: Ton Beld

  • Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2361-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6255-5Published: 31 March 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5435-7Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2361-9Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6678

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 277

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Ethics, Ontology, Philosophy of Mind

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