Causation and responsibility /
The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The concept of causation is crucial to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship by looking at accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine. |
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| Item Description: | Title from OSO Table of contents page (last view March 10, 2010). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 605 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191719653 019171965X 9780199256860 0199256861 0191555169 9780191555169 9786613593757 6613593753 1280498528 9781280498527 0191021504 9780191021503 |