The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social
and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for …

When we hold someone morally responsible for her actions, we are acknowledging,
reiterating, or perhaps even making it the case that, among other things, she'sa member of a …

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Culpability under oppression is puzzling. On the one hand, it seems callous to insist that
someone's being subject to oppression is never relevant to their culpability. On the other …

Our aim in this paper is to put the concept of moral responsibility under a microscope. At the
lowest level of magnification, it appears unified. But Gary Watson has taught us that if we …

There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness,
and our responsibility notions, praise-and blameworthiness. Yet traditional approaches to …

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements
about how responsibility is to be understood and huge controversies about how it is to be …

Philosophers usually discuss responsibility in terms of responsibility for past actions or as a
question about the nature of moral agency. Yet the word responsibility is fairly modern …

In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the role of responsibility in
politics, morality and the law. In recent years, responsibility has taken a central place in our …

One mark of interpersonal relationships is a tendency to blame. But what precise
evaluations and responses constitute blame? Is it most centrally a judgment, or is it an …