Who Knew?
Responsibility Without Awareness
Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538919-7 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538919-7 (ISBN)
To be responsible for their acts, agents must both perform those acts voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the epistemic condition has received far less attention. In Who Knew? George Sher seeks to rectify that imbalance. The book is divided in two halves, the first of which criticizes a popular but inadequate way of understanding the epistemic condition, while the second seeks to develop a more adequate alternative. It is often assumed that agents are responsible only for what they are aware of doing or bringing about--that their responsibility extends only as far as the searchlight of their consciousness. The book criticizes this "searchlight view" on two main grounds: first, that it is inconsistent with our attributions of responsibility to a broad range of agents who should but do not realize that they are acting wrongly or foolishly, and, second, that the view is not independently defensible.
George Sher is Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University
Acknowledgements ; 1. The Searchlight View ; 2. Responsibility Without Awareness ; 3. Responsibility and Practical Reason ; 4. Kantian Fairness ; 5. Knew-Or Should Have Known? ; 6. A New Beginning ; 7. Setting the Norms of Recognition ; 8. The Responsible Self ; 9. Out of Control ; Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.11.2009 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 145 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 309 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-538919-0 / 0195389190 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-538919-7 / 9780195389197 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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