Reason and Responsibility

• Author : Joel Feinberg,Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2005
• ISBN : 0534625576

The Twelfth Edition of this best-selling, topically organized anthology provides a superb balance of historical selections and recent material. This new edition features more readings than ever before--79 total--all, where necessary, in the finest translations available. The readings complement each other and naturally build on the topic being covered. Clear, concise introductions to each Part provide just enough guidance to let students learn from experiencing the readings themselves. The text's long-heralded selection of readings covers topics such as reason and

• Author : Joel Feinberg,Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2005
• ISBN : 0534274943

• Author : Bertrand Russell
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2001
• ISBN : 9780192854230

This work, originally published in 1912, is an introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality and the existence and nature of matter.

• Author : Hilary Bok
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2022-03-08
• ISBN : 9781400822737

Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what

• Author : Joseph Raz
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2011-12-08
• ISBN : 9780199693818

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? Joseph Raz examines the philosophical issues underlying these everyday questions. He explores the nature of normativity--the reasoning behind certain beliefs and emotions about how we should behave--and offers a novel account of responsibility.

• Author : Ralph Hancock
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release Date : 2011-01-16
• ISBN : 9781442207394

In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are

• Author : Michael McKenna
• Publisher : OUP USA
• Release Date : 2012-03-28
• ISBN : 9780199740031

In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P.F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent and those who hold her morally responsible is similar to the relation between a speaker and her audience. A responsible agent's actions are bearers of meaning -- agent meaning -- just as a speaker's utterances are bearers of

• Author : David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release Date : 2008-09-02
• ISBN : 9780791477823

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

• Author : John S. Callender
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2010-04-29
• ISBN : 9780199545551

intuitive sense of freedom be reconciled with causal determinism? How can moral judgment and punishment be compatible with the belief that the events that are human actions are, like any other event, the effects of prior causes? --

• Author : Gary Watson
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release Date : 2004-07-15
• ISBN : 9780199272273

Charting the progress of Watson's thought over three decades, this collection of essays on human action examines such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do?.

• Author : Randolph K. Clarke
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2014
• ISBN : 9780199347520

Philosophical theories of agency and responsibility have focused primarily on actions and activities. But, besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting or refraining, like acting, can have consequences, good and bad. And we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for omitting or refraining. However, omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. In Omissions, Randolph Clarke offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing three

• Author : Hans Jonas
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 1985-10-15
• ISBN : 9780226405971

Discusses the ethical implications of modern technology and examines the responsibility of humanity for the fate of the world

• Author : Anthony Kenny
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2011-01-31
• ISBN : 9781136816208

This reissue was first published in 1978. Anthony Kenny, one of the most distinguished philosophers in England, explores the notion of responsibility and the precise place of the mental element in criminal actions. Bringing the insights of recent philosophy of mind to bear on contemporary developments in criminal law, he writes with the general reader in mind, no specialist training in philosophy being necessary to appreciate his argument. Kenny shows that abstract distinctions drawn by analytic philosophers are relevant to decisions

• Author : Mark Alznauer
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2015-02-19
• ISBN : 9781107078123

The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel's practical philosophy - the theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions.

• Author : Joel Feinberg,Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2007-03-06
• ISBN : 0495096075

Clear and concise, this brief text is designed to assist introductory philosophy students who have no prior experience in writing philosophy papers. Contents include topic selection, outlines, drafts, proper and improper quotation, argument development and evaluation, principles of good writing, style, criteria for grading student papers, and a review of common grammatical and dictional errors. In addition, the book devotes several chapters to basic concepts in logic, which have proven invaluable for philosophy students in the course of critically considering