Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility

by Manuel Vargas

Book Overview

Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and moral responsibility. He goes on to show how we can nevertheless justify our responsibility practices and provide a normatively and naturalistically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019969754X
• ISBN13: 9780199697540
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"