Building better beings
Subtitle: a theory of moral responsibility
By: Manuel Vargas
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780191655777; 9781283867009; 9780199697540
Subjects: Responsibility; Social; Interpretation (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Free will and determinism
Description: Manuel Vargas presents a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and accountability. He shows how we can justify our responsibility practices, and provides a normatively and naturalistically adequate account of agency, blame, and desert.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Building blocks; title: pt. II. A theory of moral responsibility.