Michael Mckenna

Responsibility and Desert (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Responsibility & Desert, Michael McKenna defends a theory of moral responsibility that explains the relationship between a wrongdoer and those who blame or punish on analogy with a conversation between speakers of a shared language. In central cases, blame functions like a conversational reply to another whose act bears a meaning revealing the morally objectionable quality of her will. But such blaming responses can be harmful. McKenna defends the thesis that they can nevertheless be justified in terms of desert, and he resists several criticisms of desert-based justifications for blame and punishment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197679982
• Artikelnr.: 72262741

Autorenporträt

Michael McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at University of Arizona, having arrived in 2012. He taught at Ithaca College from 1994-2006, and Florida State University from 2006-2012. He has held visiting appointments at University of Colorado, Boulder, and Bryn Mawr College. McKenna works primarily on the related topics of free will and moral responsibility, but also in ethics, moral psychology, action theory, and metaphysics. His book Conversation & Responsibility (OUP) appeared in 2012, and Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction, coauthored with Derk Pereboom, (Routledge) appeared in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I The View
Chapter 2: Directed Blame and Conversation
Chapter 3: Basically Deserved Blame and Its Value1
Chapter 4: Punishment and the Value of Deserved Suffering
Part II Clarifications and Further Developments
Chapter 5: The Free Will Debate and Basic Desert
Chapter 6: Fittingness as a Pitiful Intellectualist Trinket?
Chapter 7: Guilt and Self-Blame
Part III Interrogating the Proposal
Chapter 8: The Attenuated Role of the Hostile Emotions
Chapter 9: Power, Social Inequities, and the Conversational Theory
Chapter 10: Wimpy Retributivism and the Promise of Moral Influence Theories
Chapter 11: Conclusion