Action and Responsibility

By:

Andrew Sneddon

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

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What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls "productionism", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2010

Author

Andrew Sneddon

Series

Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

Pages

200

Edition

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

X, 200 p.

Dimensions

156x234x11

ISBN-13

9789048170081

Product ID

10583255

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