The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility

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The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive survey on scholarship on this topic since 1960, with a focus on the past three decades. Articles address the nature of moral responsibility - whether it is fundamentally a matter of deserved blame and praise, or whether it is grounded anticipated good consequences, such as moral education and formation, or whether there are different kinds of moral responsibility. They examine responsibility for both actions and omissions, whether responsibility comes in degrees, and whether groups such as corporations can be responsible. The traditional debates about moral responsibility focus on the threats posed from causal determinism, and from the absence of the ability to do otherwise that may result. The articles in this volume build on these arguments and appraise the most recent developments in these debates. Philosophical reflection on the personal relationships and moral responsibility has been especially intense over the past two decades, and several articles reflect this development. Other chapters take up the link between blameworthiness and attitudes such as moral resentment and indignation, while others explore the role that forgiveness and reconciliation play in personal relationships and responsibility. The range of articles in this volume look at moral responsibility from a range of perspectives and disciplines, explaining how physics, neuroscience, and psychological research on topics such as addiction and implicit bias illuminate the ways and degrees to which we might be responsible. Contents About the Contributors General Introduction • Dana Kay Nelkin and Derk Pereboom PART I: THEORIES OF RESPONSIBILITY 1. Instrumentalist Theories of moral Responsibility • Manuel Vargas 2. Reasons- Responsiveness, Frankfurt Examples, and the Free Will Ability • Michael McKenna 3. Attributionist Theories of Moral Responsibility • Matthew Talbert PART II: KINDS OF RESPONSIBILITY 4. Accountability, Answerability, and Attributability: On Different Kinds of Moral Responsibility • Sofia Jeppsson PART III: DIMENSIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY 5. Responsibility for Acts and Omissions • Randolph Clarke 6. Degrees of Responsibility • D. Justin Coates 7. Group Responsibility • Christian List PART IV: DETERMINISM AND THE ABILITY TO DO OTHERWISE 8. Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Frankfurt Examples • Derk Pereboom 9. Manipulation Arguments Against Compatibilism • Derk Pereboom and Michael McKenna PART V: SKEPTICISM 10. Illusionism • Saul Smilansky 11. Free Will Skepticism and Criminal Justice: The Public Health-Quarantine Model • Gregg D. Caruso 12. Metaskepticism • Tamler Sommers PART VI: BLAME 13. Blame and Holding Responsible • Angela M. Smith 14. Responsibility and Reactive Attitudes • R. Jay Wallace 15. Response-Dependence Theories of Responsibility • David Shoemaker PART VII: RESPONSIBILITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND CAUSATION 16. Ethics Is Hard! What Follows? On Moral Ignorance and Blame • Elizabeth Harman 17. Responsibility and Causation • Carolina Sartorio PART VIII: RESPONSIBILITY, LAW, AND JUSTICE 18. Responsibility, Punishment, and Predominant Retributivism • David O. Brink 19. Legal Responsibility: Psychopathy, a Case Study • Elizabeth Shaw 20. Responsibility and Distributive Justice • Richard Arneson PART IX: RESPONSIBILITY, NEUROSCIENCE, AND PSYCHOLOGY 21. Moral Responsibility and Neuroscience • Alfred R. Mele 22. Responsibility and Consciousness • Matt King and Peter Carruthers 23. Responsibility and Situationism • Brandon Warmke 24. Experimental Philosophy and Moral Responsibility • Gunnar Björnsson PART X: RESPONSIBILITY, RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEANING IN LIFE 25. Moral Responsibility and Existential Attitudes • Paul Russell 26. Relationships and Responsibility • Dana Kay Nelkin 27. Responsibility, Personal Relationships, and the Significance of the Reactive Attitudes • Seth Shabo 28. Forgiveness • Per-Erik Milam 29. Reconciliation and the End of Responsibility • Linda Radzik 30. Responsibility and Religion • Daniel Speak PART XI: CASE STUDIES 31. Moral Responsibility in the Context of Addiction • Doug McConnell 32. Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias and the Impact of Social Categorization • Maureen Sie 33. Skepticism about Evil: Atrocity and the Limits of Responsibility • Dominic Murphy and John M. Doris Index