Responsibility from the Margins

by David Shoemaker

Book Overview

David Shoemaker presents an original, pluralistic theory of the nature of responsibility, built out of the different kinds of emotional responses people tend to have to the expressions of different kinds of quality of will. The approach is motivated by the ambivalent reactions had to several real-life agents on the margins of our moral responsibility communities, including those with clinical depression, Alzheimer's dementia, obsessive-compulsive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198715676
• ISBN13: 9780198715672
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"