Causation and responsibility
Subtitle: an essay in law, morals, and metaphysics
By: Michael S. Moore.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9780199256860
Subjects: Proximate cause (Law); Causation (Criminal law); Causation (Criminal law) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Liability (Law); Metaphysics
Description: The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine.
Table of contents: title: The role of causation in moral and legal responsibility; title: Presuppositions about the nature of causation by legal doctrines; title: The blind alley : the attempt to replace proximate causation with culpability as a prerequisite for legal liability; title: 'Negligence in the air will not do'; title: The legal presupposition of there being 'intervening causes'; title: The metaphysics of  cause relata; title: The metaphysics of the causal relation.