Conversation and responsibility / Michael McKenna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenna, Michael, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P.F. Strawson.

Contents:

Introduction: moral responsibility, conversation and meaning

Moral responsibility: a conceptual map

Reorienting Strawson's theory of moral responsibility

Moral responsibility and quality of will

conversation and responsibility

genuine responsibility: defending a conversational theory

Conversation and deserved blame

Blame's warrant

Conversation and the scope of moral responsibility.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045385-0

1-280-49854-4

9786613593771

0-19-987650-9

OCLC:

787851763