Fair opportunity and responsibility / David O. Brink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brink, David O. (David Owen), 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Right and wrong.

Excuses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 426 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, [2021]

Summary:

In this work, David O. Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.

Contents:

Prolegomena

The Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility

The Fair Opportunity Conception of Responsibility

Fair Opportunity, Capacities, and Possibilities

Fair Opportunity and History

Blame, Punishment, and Predominant Retributivism

The Nature and Significance of Culpability

Affirmative Defenses: Principles and Puzzles

Structural Injustice and Fair Opportunity

Situationism and Fair Opportunity

Incompetence, Psychopathy, and Fair Opportunity

Immaturity and Fair Opportunity

Addiction and Fair Opportunity

Battered Persons, Provocation, and Fair Opportunity

Partial Responsibility and Excuse

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260319-1

0-19-189180-0

0-19-260318-3

OCLC:

1252417238