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Simply responsible : basic blame, scant praise, and minimal agency / Matt King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Matt, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Responsibility.
- Blame.
- Praise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Matt King presents a radical new account of responsibility according to which moral responsibility should be understood in the same way as other kinds of responsibility. We are responsible for the things we do first, then blameworthy or praiseworthy for having done them in light of whether they're good or bad, according to a variety of standards.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A General Theory of Responsibility
- An Initial Case Study
- What's in a Name?
- Being Responsible
- An Argument in Two Keys
- Local Focus
- Roadmap
- 1. The Basic Responsibility Relation
- Symmetry in Praising and Blaming
- The Basic Responsibility Relation
- The Case for Asymmetry
- What's Next
- 2. Basic Agency
- Doers and Doings
- Where the Action Is
- Conditions on the Basic Responsibility Relation
- Why the Basic Responsibility Relation?
- Next Steps
- 3. Basic Blame and Basic Praise
- A Schematic Approach
- Basics of Blame (and Praise)
- Blame by Any Other Name
- Mere Grading and the Force of Blame
- Testing the Account
- Scant Praise
- The Story So Far
- 4. Basic Desert
- Are Ye Worthy?
- Deserving Blame (and Praise)
- Hard Treatment and Sanction
- What's So Bad about Being Blameworthy?
- Going without Desert
- Basic Desert and Praise
- Summing Up
- 5. Beyond Basic Responsibility
- Accounting for Different Types of Responsibility
- The Really Real Self
- Building Character
- Check Your Attitude
- The Limits of Authorship
- What Lies Beyond
- Conclusion: Odds and Ends
- Signposts and Exit Ramps
- Specifying Activities
- The Moral in Responsibility
- Koko, the Artist
- Coming of Age
- Compatibility Test
- Concluding Thoughts
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: King, Matt Simply Responsible
- ISBN:
- 0-19-197979-1
- 0-19-288361-5
- 0-19-288360-7
- OCLC:
- 1380468033
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