Robert J Hartman

In Defense of Moral Luck

Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book defends the claim that luck in results, circumstance, and character can partially determine the degree of a person's blameworthiness. It provides a unique way to advance the debate about moral luck by appealing to arguments in metaphysics, epistemology, ethical theory, and moral psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780367372415
• ISBN-10: 036737241X
• Artikelnr.: 57144656

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Hartman received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from St. Louis University in 2016 and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the Gothenburg Responsibility Project at the University of Gothenburg. His main interests include moral responsibility, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies, Philosophia, and the Journal of Philosophical Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing the Problem of Moral Luck
2. The Concept of Moral Luck
3. Against the Skeptical Denial of Moral Luck
4. Against the Non-Skeptical Denial of Moral Luck
5. In Defense of Moral Luck
6. Error Theory for the Luck-Free Intuition