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 …

R. Jay Wallace argues in this book that moral accountability hinges on questions of fairness:
When is it fair to hold people morally responsible for what they do? Would it be fair to do so …

The essays in this volume address questions about responsibility that arise in moral
philosophy and legal theory. Some analyze different theories of causality and human …

Criminal lawyers and criminal-law theorists, as well as philosophers, have much to learn
from Gary Watson's seminal work on responsibility. In this chapter, by way of appropriately …

Responsibility has become the" queen of modern virtues," Winston Davis argues, even if
there is no consensus as to what responsibility means. This illuminating collection of essays …

The conception of moral responsibility, as Williams describes it, focuses on the “voluntary”.
The voluntary, as applied to action, is to be defined roughly as “A does X intentionally and in …

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 …

The concept of responsibility permeates social life. While it has many meanings, they often
centre around questions of practical and moral accountability, culpability and liability. One …

It is now well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza (1998)–and before them,
Jay Wallace (1994) and Daniel Dennett (1984)–defended responsibility from the threat of …

When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was
mourned as the passing of" one of the most important political philosophers of the past …