Defeasibility in philosophy : knowledge, agency, responsibility, and the law / edited by Claudia Blöser [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blöser, Claudia.

Series:

Grazer philosophische Studien ; v. 87.

Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1875-6735 ; Volume 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defeasible reasoning.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Defeasibility, most generally speaking, means that given some set of conditions A, something else B will hold, unless or until defeating conditions C apply. While the term was introduced into philosophy by legal philosopher H.L.A. Hart in 1949, today, the concept of defeasibility is employed in many different areas of philosophy. This volume for the first time brings together contributions on defeasibility from epistemology (Mikael Janvid, Klemens Kappel, Hannes Ole Matthiessen, Marcus Willaschek, Michael Williams), legal philosophy (Frederick Schauer) and ethics and the philosophy of action (

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Knowledge, Ascriptivism and Defeasible Concepts; Knowledge, Defeasibility, and the Gettier Problem; The Challenges of Traveling without Itinerary: The Overriding Case; Entitlement and Public Accessibility of Epistemic Status; Strawsonian Epistemology. What Epistemologists Can Learn from ""Freedom and Resentment""; The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility; Comment on Claudia Blöser ""The Defeasible Structure of Ascriptions of Responsibility""; Reply to Wallace

Can a Spasm Cause an Action? An Argument for Responsibilist Theories of ActionAutonomous by Default. Assessing ""Non-Alienation"" in John Christman's Conception of Personal Autonomy; On the Open Texture of Law; Selected Thematic Bibliography of Work on Defeasibility in Philosophy and Related Disciplines

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1011-X

OCLC:

868283055