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Responsibility and desert / Michael McKenna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenna, Michael, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Responsibility.
- Blame.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Michael McKenna defends a theory of moral responsibility that explains the relationship between a wrongdoer and those who blame or punish on analogy with a conversation between speakers of a shared language. In central cases, blame functions like a conversational reply to another whose act bears a meaning revealing the morally objectionable quality of her will. But such blaming responses can be harmful. McKenna defends the thesis that they can nevertheless be justified in terms of desert, and he resists several criticisms of desert-based justifications for blame and punishment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 3, 2024).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780197679999
- 0197679994
- 9780197679975
- 0197679978
- OCLC:
- 1458553973
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