Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

French, Peter A.

Description

vi, 327 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Philosophy
• Responsibility
• Social Responsibility

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0312034962

LCCN

^^^89063895^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library