1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility
The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts – on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility – within which the following key topics are examined:
- responsibility and wrongdoing
- responsibility and determinism
- the scope of responsibility
- the responsibility of individuals within society
- the concepts of responsibility
- the conditions and challenges of responsibility
- the practices of being and holding responsible
- the ethics and politics of responsibility
- responsibility in the law
Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related fields such as politics, law, and policymaking.
Introduction Maximilian Kiener
Part 1: The History of Responsibility
Section 1: Responsibility and Wrongdoing
1. Plato on Vice Marcel van Ackeren
2. Hegel on Guilt Mark Alznauer
Section 2: Responsibility and Determinism
3. The Stoics: What Kind of Responsibility is Compatible with Divine Providence? Rachana Kamtekar
4. Hobbes Against Bramhall: Moral Responsibility, Free Will, and Mechanistic Determination Thomas Pink
5. Hume on Free Will and Moral Responsibility Peter Millican
6. Sidgwick on Free Will and Ethics Anthony Skelton
Section 3: The Scope of Responsibility
7. Aristotle on Legal and Moral Responsibility: Interpretation and Reform Terence Irwin
8. Kant on Absolute Responsibility and Transcendental Freedom David Sussman
Section 4: Individuals and Society
9. Responsibility in Confucian Thought David Wong
10. Aquinas on Holding Others to Blame Jeffrey Hause
Part 2: The Theory of Responsibility
Section 5: The Concepts of Responsibility
11. Responsibility and Agency Maria Alvarez
12. Responsibility and Causation Alex Kaiserman
13. Responsibility and The Deep Self Monika Betzler
14. Responsibility and Emotion Andreas Carlsson
15. Varieties of Answerability Maximilian Kiener
Section 6: The Conditions and Challenges of Responsibility
16. The Consequences of Incompatibilism Patrick Todd
17. Free Will and The Case for Compatibilism Carolina Sartorio
18. Deliberation and the Possibility of Skepticism Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette
19. Responsibility and Manipulation Massimo Renzo
20. Responsibility and Coercion Carla Bagnoli
21. Ignorance and the Epistemic Condition Daniel Miller
22. Moral Competence and Mental Disorder Lubomira Radoilska
23. Excuse, Capacity and Convention David Owens
Part 3: The Practice of Responsibility
Section 7: Being and Holding Responsible
24. Blaming Leonhard Menges
25. Communicating Praise Daniel Telech
26. The Standing to Blame Matt King
27. Apology and Forgiveness Andrea Westlund
28. Taking Responsibility Elinor Mason
29. Responsibility Without Blame Bruce Waller
30. Holding Responsible in the African Tradition: Reconciliation Applied to Punishment, Compensation, and Trials Thaddeus Metz
Section 8: The Ethics and Politics of Responsibility
31. Artificial Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care Shannon Vallor and Bhargavi Ganesh
32. Moral Responsibility for Historical Injustice Michael Schefczyk
33. Corporate Digital Responsibility Alexander Filipović
34. Reckless Complicity: International Banks and Future Climate Henry Shue
35. Responsibility and Gender Paula Casal
Section 9: Responsibility in the Law
36. Legal and Moral Responsibility Peter Cane
37. The Voluntary Act Requirement in Criminal Law John Hyman
38. Strict Liability and Strict Responsibility Antony Duff
39. Responsibility and Pre-Trial Detention Kim Ferzan
40. Responsibility for Others Jenny Steele
41. Legitimate Divergence Between Moral and Criminal Blame Alexander Sarch.
Index
Biography
Maximilian Kiener is a Junior Professor of Philosophy and Ethics in Technology at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He specialises in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. His book Voluntary Consent: Theory and Practice is also published by Routledge.
