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 …

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

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 …

What is it to be morally responsible for something? Recent philosophical work reveals
considerable disagreement on the question. Indeed, some theorists claim to distinguish …

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 …

I am going to be discussing a mode of moral responsibility that anglophone philosophers
have largely neglected. It is a type of responsibility that looks to the future rather than the …

Much of the literature on moral responsibility is dominated by the question whether moral
responsibility is compatible with determinism. Indeed, sometimes philosophers assume that …

I defend an instrumentalist account of moral responsibility and adopt Manuel Vargas' idea
that our responsibility practices are justified by their effects. However, whereas Vargas gives …

This contribution gives an analysis of the concept of responsibility in its predominant uses
and discusses the relations between the concept of responsibility and such kindred …

Harry Frankfurt's Unwilling Addict famously “hates his addiction and always struggles
desperately, although to no avail, against its thrust”(Frankfurt 1971: 12). 1 There is a strong …