Maureen Sie

Broschiertes Buch

Justifying Blame

Why Free Will Matters and Why It Does Not

Beschreibung

This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, "morally monstrous-like" crimes and weak-willed actions of some.

Autor

Maureen Sie was born in 1966, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She is employed as Assistant Professor of Meta-ethics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research concerns questions of Meta-ethics and theories of moral responsibility. Her most recent publication is the co-edited volume Reasons of One's Own (Ashgate, 2004). Her previous publications on the subject of responsibility are: "Responsibility in Autonomy Undermining Circumstances," Ethical Perspectives, 5, (1998), pp. 30-35; "Goodwill, Determinism and Justification," Human Action, Deliberation and Causation, Jan Bransen and Stefaan E. Cuypers (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1998), pp. 113-129; "Freedom and Blameworthiness," Moral Responsibility and Ontology, Ton van den Beld (ed.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000), pp. 113-128; "Mad, Bad, or Disagreeing? On Moral Competence and Responsibility," Philosophical Explorations, 3 (September). Assen: Van Gorcum, (2001), pp. 262-281.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9789042017443
• ISBN-10: 9042017449
• Artikelnr.: 35738076