The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility by Kiener, Maximilian;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related disciplines such as politics, law, and policymaking.

Long description:

The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts – on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility – within which the following key topics are examined:

• responsibility and wrongdoing


• responsibility and determinism


• the scope of responsibility


• the responsibility of individuals within society


• the concepts of responsibility


• the conditions and challenges of responsibility


• the practices of being and holding responsible


• the ethics and politics of responsibility


• responsibility in the law

Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related fields such as politics, law, and policymaking.

Table of Contents:

Introduction Maximilian Kiener  Part 1: The History of Responsibility  Section 1: Responsibility and Wrongdoing  1. Plato on Vice Marcel van Ackeren  2. Hegel on Guilt Mark Alznauer  Section 2: Responsibility and Determinism  3. The Stoics: What Kind of Responsibility is Compatible with Divine Providence? Rachana Kamtekar  4. Hobbes Against Bramhall: Moral Responsibility, Free Will, and Mechanistic Determination Thomas Pink  5. Hume on Free Will and Moral Responsibility Peter Millican  6. Sidgwick on Free Will and Ethics Anthony Skelton  Section 3: The Scope of Responsibility  7. Aristotle on Legal and Moral Responsibility: Interpretation and Reform Terence Irwin  8. Kant on Absolute Responsibility and Transcendental Freedom David Sussman  Section 4: Individuals and Society  9. Responsibility in Confucian Thought David Wong  10. Aquinas on Holding Others to Blame Jeffrey Hause  Part 2: The Theory of Responsibility  Section 5: The Concepts of Responsibility  11. Responsibility and Agency Maria Alvarez  12. Responsibility and Causation Alex Kaiserman  13. Responsibility and The Deep Self Monika Betzler  14. Responsibility and Emotion Andreas Carlsson  15. Varieties of Answerability Maximilian Kiener  Section 6: The Conditions and Challenges of Responsibility  16. The Consequences of Incompatibilism Patrick Todd  17. Free Will and The Case for Compatibilism Carolina Sartorio  18. Deliberation and the Possibility of Skepticism Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette  19. Responsibility and Manipulation Massimo Renzo  20. Responsibility and Coercion Carla Bagnoli  21. Ignorance and the Epistemic Condition Daniel Miller  22. Moral Competence and Mental Disorder Lubomira Radoilska  23. Excuse, Capacity and Convention David Owens  Part 3: The Practice of Responsibility  Section 7: Being and Holding Responsible  24. Blaming Leonhard Menges  25. Communicating Praise Daniel Telech  26. The Standing to Blame Matt King  27. Apology and Forgiveness Andrea Westlund  28. Taking Responsibility Elinor Mason  29. Responsibility Without Blame Bruce Waller  30. Holding Responsible in the African Tradition: Reconciliation Applied to Punishment, Compensation, and Trials Thaddeus Metz  Section 8: The Ethics and Politics of Responsibility  31. Artificial Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care Shannon Vallor and Bhargavi Ganesh  32. Moral Responsibility for Historical Injustice Michael Schefczyk  33. Corporate Digital Responsibility Alexander Filipović  34. Reckless Complicity: International Banks and Future Climate Henry Shue  35. Responsibility and Gender Paula Casal  Section 9: Responsibility in the Law  36. Legal and Moral Responsibility Peter Cane  37. The Voluntary Act Requirement in Criminal Law John Hyman  38. Strict Liability and Strict Responsibility Antony Duff  39. Responsibility and Pre-Trial Detention Kim Ferzan  40. Responsibility for Others Jenny Steele  41. Legitimate Divergence Between Moral and Criminal Blame Alexander Sarch.  Index