The Nature of Moral Responsibility

Randolph Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of Libertarian Accounts of Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2003), Omissions: Agency, Metaphysics, and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014) and numerous articles on agency, free will, and moral responsibility.Michael McKenna is Professor and Keith Lehrer Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Conversation and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles on free will and moral responsibility.Angela Smith is Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and Director of the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of numerous articles on moral responsibility, moral agency, and moral psychology.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Part I. The Nature of Moral Responsibility: Some FrameworksChapter 1. Neal A. Tognazzini, The Strains of InvolvementChapter 2. Michael J. Zimmerman, Varieties of Moral ResponsibilityChapter 3. Gideon Rosen, The Alethic Conception of Moral ResponsibilityChapter 4. T. M. Scanlon, Forms and Conditions of Responsibility Part II. Quality of Will and the Deep SelfChapter 5. David Shoemaker, Ecumenical AttributabilityChapter 6. Nomy Arpaly, Huckleberry Finn Revisited: Inverse Akrasia and Moral IgnoranceChapter 7. Julia Driver, Appraisability, Attributability, and Moral AgencyChapter 8. Holly M. Smith, Dual-Process Theory and Moral Responsibility Part III. Responsibility in Practice: Communication, Substantive Responsibility, and Moral DesertChapter 9. Coleen Macnamara, Blame, Communication, and Morally Responsible AgencyChapter 10. George Sher, Responsibility, Conversation, and CommunicationChapter 11. Rahul Kumar, Contractualism and the Roots of ResponsibilityChapter 12. Derk Pereboom, A Notion of Moral Responsibility Immune to the Threat from Causal DeterminationSuggested Further ReadingsIndex

There are new voices here, and the old voices find new and interesting things to say...There is a lot to say on the subject. I hasten to add that much of what is said in this volume is very insightful...I mentioned that this volume would be beneficial for both specialists and those familiarizing themselves with the current state of the debate. One reason for this is that several of the chapters expand on recent monographs. These chapters are profitable whether or not one is already familiar with the previous works.