Hart on Responsibility [electronic resource] /
Pulman, C.editor.
A collection of essays discussing Herbert Hart's writings on responsibility. The essays focus upon Hart's work on causation in the law and on the justification of punishment. Specific topics discussed include senses of 'responsibility', voluntariness, Mill's harm principle, mens rea, excuses, the Hart-Wootton debate, and negligence.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Hart's Senses of 'Responsibility'; 2 Voluntary Interventions; 3 Causing Things and Doing Things; 4 A Framework for Punishment: What Is the Insight of Hart's 'Prolegomenon'?; 5 Legal Responses to Consensual Sexuality between Adults: Through and beyond the Harm Principle; 6 Revisiting the Hart/Wootton Debate on Responsibility; 7 Hart's Choices; 8 Hart, Punishment and Excusing Conditions; 9 Hart and Punishment for Negligence; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of essays discussing Herbert Hart's writings on responsibility. The essays focus upon Hart's work on causation in the law and on the justification of punishment. Specific topics discussed include senses of 'responsibility', voluntariness, Mill's harm principle, mens rea, excuses, the Hart-Wootton debate, and negligence.
Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992.
Ethics.
Political science.
Law—Philosophy.
Law.
Philosophy of mind.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Philosophy of Law.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
Philosophy of Mind.