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Author Sneddon, Andrew

Title Action and responsibility / by Andrew Sneddon
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : illustrations
Series Library of ethics and applied philosophy ; v. 18
Library of ethics and applied philosophy ; v. 18.
Contents Two Questions; Ascriptivism Resurrected: The Case for Ascriptivism; Ascriptivism Defended: The Case Against Ascriptivism; Responsibility and Causation I: Legal Responsibility; Responsibility and Causation II: Moral Responsibility; Foundationalism and the Production Question; Foundationalism and the Status Question: Strong Productionism; Nouveau Volitionism; Weak Productionism; Concluding Reflections on Ascriptivism and Action
Summary What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls "productionism", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Act (Philosophy)
Responsibility.
Events (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Responsibility.
Act (Philosophy)
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Act (Philosophy)
Events (Philosophy)
Responsibility
Handelen.
Verantwoordelijkheid.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781402039829
1402039824
1402039964
9781402039966
6610360650
9786610360659
Other Titles Actions and responsibility