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In this book, Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P.F. Strawson.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Moral Responsibility, Conversation, and Meaning""; ""1. Moral Responsibility: A Conceptual Map""; ""1. Kinds of Responsibility""; ""2. Morally Responsible Agency""; ""3. Moral Responsibility for Conduct""; ""4. Holding Morally Responsible""; ""5. Moral Responsibility, Entailment, and the Concept of Moral Responsibility""; ""2. Reorienting Strawsonâ€?s Theory of Moral Responsibility""; ""1. Variations on Strawsonâ€?s Theory""; ""2. Embracing and Developing Wallaceâ€?s Principle (N)""
""3. A Normative Interpretation versus an Extreme Metaphysical Interpretation""""4. Two Distinctions""; ""5. Resisting a Strawsonian Theme: The Role of Holding Responsible""; ""6. A Modest Metaphysical Interpretation""; ""3. Moral Responsibility and Quality of Will""; ""1. A Strawsonian Quality of Will Thesis""; ""2. The Morally Reactive Attitudes and Their Attendant Practices""; ""3. Pleas: Reasons to Modify the Reactive Attitudes""; ""3.1 Excuses and Justifications""; ""3.2 Exemptions""; ""4. Conversation and Responsibility""
""1. The Intimate Link between Being Responsible and Holding Responsible""""2. Introducing a Conversational Theory of Moral Responsibility""; ""3. Agent Meaning and Moral Responsibility""; ""4. Agent Meaning and Action Meaning""; ""5. What Kind of Meaning Is Agent Meaning?""; ""6. The Place of Meaning in Other Theories of Responsibility""; ""5. Genuine Responsibility: Defending a Conversational Theory""; ""1. A Robinson Crusoeâ€?Type Objection""; ""2. Why Affect?""; ""3. Moral Responsibility without Desert?""; ""4. Moral Responsibility with Desert?""; ""4.1 Basic Desert""
""4.2 Ultimate Responsibility and What Is Deserved""""4.3 Axiological, Deontological, or Both?""; ""6. Conversation and Deserved Blame""; ""1. In Search of a Desert Thesis""; ""2. Whatâ€?s the Harm in Blaming?""; ""3. Articulating a Desert Thesis for Blame""; ""4. A Challenge for the Moral Responsibility Skeptic""; ""7. Blameâ€?s Warrant""; ""1. The Challenge of Proper Warrant""; ""2. Justifying Blame in the Absence of Desert""; ""3. Justifying Blame by Way of Nonbasic Desert""; ""4. Why Not Basic Desert?""; ""5. Accounting for Blameâ€?s Warrant""
""8. Conversation and the Scope of Moral Responsibility""""1. Blaming in the Absence of the Blamed""; ""2. A Restrictive View of Moral Responsibilityâ€?s Scope""; ""3. Blameworthiness for Bad Acts?""; ""4. Blameworthiness for the Nonvoluntary?""; ""5. Conversation and a Unified Account of Moral Responsibilityâ€?s Scope""; ""9. Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
Includes bibliographical references and index.