POLITICAL theorists and philosophers typically think of agents as morally responsible for
injustice when two conditions obtain: the agents' behavior—their acts, attempts, and …

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 …

Our practice of holding each other morally responsible involves a number of different senses
of moral responsibility. It's generally agreed that this practice features the notion of desert. In …

Responsibility has become a relevant topic in world politics as the rising number of
publications shows. Many of them deal with the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), 1 but …

Philosophers frequently distinguish between causal responsibility and moral responsibility,
but that distinction is either ambiguous or confused. We can distinguish between causal …

There are two broadly competing pictures of moral responsibility. On the view I favor, to be
responsible for some action is to be related to it in such a way that licenses attributing certain …

Should a person who cannot appreciate the moral significance of legal norms qualify as a
blameworthy actor simply because he has the capacity to comply with them for non-moral …

The starting point for discussions of moral responsibility in contemporary philosophy is our
practice of holding one another morally responsible for what we do. This practice consists of …

Abstract In Building Better Beings, Vargas develops and defends a naturalistic
(compatibilist) account of responsibility, whereby responsible agents must possess a …

Many believe that a citizen who engages in civil disobedience is not exempt from the
sanctions that apply to standard law-breaking conduct. Since he is responsible for a …