Causation and Responsibility

by Michael S. Moore

Book Overview

The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199256861
• ISBN13: 9780199256860
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"