Placing Blame

Professor Michael Moore holds the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair at the Univerity of Illinois. He is jointly appointed as Professor of Law in the College of Law and as Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also holds an appointment as a Professor with the Center for Advanced Studies. His major works include Causation and Responsibility (OUP, 2009), Act and Crime (OUP, 1993), and Law and Psychiatry (CUP, 1984).

• Introduction ; 1. A Theory of Criminal Law Theories ; PART ONE: THE THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW'S FUNCTION ; 2. Closet Retributivism ; 3. The Moral Worth of Retribution ; 4. Justifying Retributivism ; PART TWO: THE THEORY OF THE GENERAL PART: THE THEORY OF RESPONSIBILITY ; A. The Nature of Moral Responsibility ; 5. The Independent Moral Significance of Wrongdoing ; B. The Elements of Responsibility: Wrongdoing and Culpability ; 1. The Nature of Wrongdoing ; a. the Nature of Human Action ; 6. Moore on Act and Crime ; b. The Nature of Causation ; 7. Causation, Rights-Violations, and Wrongdoing ; 8. Foreseeing Harm Opaquely ; 2. The Nature of Culpability ; a. The Nature of Mental States ; 9. Prima Facie Moral Culpability ; 10. Mind, Brain, and the Unconscious ; 11. Intentions and Mens Rea ; The Nature of Excuse ; 12. Causation and the Excusescuse ; 13. Choice, Character, and Excuse ; PART THREE: THE THEORY OF THE SPECIAL PART: THEORIES OF LEGISLATION AND OF WRONGFUL ACTION ; A. The Theory of Proper Legislative Aim ; 16. A Non-Exclusionary Theory of Legislative Aim: Taking Aim at Moral Wrongdoing ; B. The Theory of Moral Wrongfulness ; 17. Torture and the Balance of Evils ; C. The Theory of the Limits of Criminal Legislation ; 18. Liberty's Limits on Legislation

The high-point of Moore's exposition ... is a fine and psychologically penetrating defense of subjective moral institutions and emotions as 'heuristic indicators' of moral truths.