Title: Causation and responsibility
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Causation (Criminal law), Liability (Law), Metaphysics, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Causation (Criminal law), Proximate cause (Law), Causation, Responsibility
LC classification: K579.C34 M66 2008