Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza

Cornell University Press, 1993 - Philosophy - 365 pages

Explores aspects of responsibility, including moral accountability; hierarchy, rationality, and the real self; and ethical responsibility and alternative possibilities.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Freedom and Resentment: 45
• On Freedom and Resentment: 67
• The Importance of Free Will: 101
• The Real Self View: 151
• Identification and Wholeheartedness: 170
• What Happens When Someone Acts?: 188
• Sanctification Hardening of the Heart: 211
• Intellect Will and the Principle: 237
• What We Are Morally Responsible for: 286
• Incompatibilism without the Principle: 296
• Causing and Being Responsible: 310
• Responsibility for Consequences: 322
• Bibliography: 349

About the author

John Martin Fischer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. With Mark Ravizza, he co-edited Ethics: Problems and Principles. Mark Ravizza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. With John Martin Fischer, he co-edited Ethics: Problems and Principles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Perspectives on Moral Responsibility; Cornell paperbacks
• Editors: John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0801481597, 9780801481598
• Length: 365 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Movements / Analytic; Religion / Theology