Jeanette Kennett

Agency and Responsibility

A Common-Sense Moral Psychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She addresses with clarity and insight a range of important topics in moral psychology, such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness (here characterised as culpable bad judgement) - and does so in terms which make their relations to each other and to the challenges of real life obvious. Agency and Responsibility concludes by testing the accounts developed of self-control, moral failure, and moral responsibility against the hard cases provided by acts of extreme evil.

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Distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will, and compulsion have been the targets of much philosophical attack. Beginning with the problem of weakness of will, this volume builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency that highly regards the capacity for self-control. It addresses with clarity a range of important topics-such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness-making this work especially important to those interested in philosophy, psychology, law, and moral and legal responsibility in general.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780199266302
• ISBN-10: 0199266301
• Artikelnr.: 22258708

Autorenporträt

Jeanette Kennett is lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Moral Psychology and Common Sense
* 2: Classical Theories of Reasons and Motivations
* 3: Humean Accounts of Reason and Motivation: Davidson and Decision
Theory
* 4: Wanting and Valuing
* 5: A Taxonomy of Agent-Control
* 6: Moral Failures and Moral Responsibility: Recklessness, Weakness,
Compulsion
* 7: Moral Failure and Moral Responsibility: The Problem of Evildoers
* Bibliography, Index