Responsibility from the margins / David Shoemaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoemaker, David, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Mental illness.

Responsibility.

Agent (Philosophy).

People with social disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 262 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study develops a pluralistic quality of will theory of responsibility, motivated by our ambivalence to real life cases of marginal agency, such as those with clinical depression, scrupulosity, psychopathy, autism, intellectual disability, and more. Our ambivalent responses suggest that such agents are responsible in some ways but not others. A tripartite theory is developed to account for this fact of our ambivalence via exploration of the appropriateness conditions of three distinct categories of our pan-cultural emotional responsibility responses: attributability, answerability, and accountability.

Contents:

Introduction

part I. The tripartite theory of responsibility ; The tripartite profile : a chart ; Attributability ; Answerability ; Accountability

part II. Ambivalence at the margins ; Marginal ambivalence : a chart ; Depression and scrupulosity : the boundaries of the deep self ; Psychoapthy and autism : the limits of regard ; Psychopathy and intellectual disability : impairments of judgment ; Deprivation and dementia : how history does and doesn't matter

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-105790-8

0-19-880118-1

0-19-178336-6

0-19-102479-1

OCLC:

905348860