Action Ethics and Responsibility

<b>Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives including metaphysics action theory and philosophy of law.</b><p>Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the free will problem. By contrast these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives--metaphysics ethics action theory and the philosophy of law. After a broad framing introduction by the volume's editors the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the free will problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference if any between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for making sense of collective responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility. The contributors include such distinguished authors as Alfred R. Mele John Martin Fischer George Sher and Frances Kamm as well as important rising scholars. Taken together the essays in <i>Action Ethics and Responsibility</i> offer a breadth of perspectives that is unmatched by other treatments of the topic.</p><p><b>Contributors<br></b>Joseph Keim Campbell David Chan Randolph Clarke E.J. Coffman John Martin Fischer Helen Frowe Todd Jones Frances Kamm Antti Kauppinen Alfred R. Mele Michael O'Rourke Paul Russell Robert F. Schopp George Sher Harry S. Silverstein Saul Smilansky Donald Smith Charles T. Wolfe</p>