Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He
argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic …

Debates on lethal autonomous weapon systems have proliferated in the past 5 years.
Ethical concerns have been voiced about a possible raise in the number of wrongs and …

John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our
understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the …

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 …

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and
the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often …

Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less
responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult. But how do we explain …

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Philosophers usually acknowledge two individually necessary and jointly sufficient
conditions for a person to be morally responsible for an action, ie, susceptible to be praised …

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization,
focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should …

As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for
upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field's issues …