Causation and responsibility : an essay in law, morals, and metaphysics / Michael S. Moore.
The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 605 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |