Causation and Responsibility : An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics
Michael S. Moore
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, , c2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (1261 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Cases; List of Statutes; I. THE ROLE OF CAUSATION IN MORAL AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY; 1. The Embedding of Causation in Legal Liability Doctrines; 2. Causation and Moral Blameworthiness; 3. Causation and the Permissibility of Consequentialist Justification within Agent-Relative Morality and the Law; II. PRESUPPOSITIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF CAUSATION BY LEGAL DOCTRINES; 4. The Law's Own Characterizations of its Causal Requirements; 5. The Prima Facie Demands of the Law on the Concept of Causation. - 11. The Legal Doctrines of Intervening Causation12. The Lack of any Metaphysical Basis for the Doctrines of Intervening Causation; 13. The Superfluity of Accomplice Liability; V. THE METAPHYSICS OF CAUSAL RELATA; 14. A Prolegomenon to the Issue of Causal Relata; 15. The Facts, Events, States of Affairs, and Tropes Debate; VI. THE METAPHYSICS OF THE CAUSAL RELATION; 16. Counterfactual Conditionals; 17. The Counterfactual Theory of Causation; 18. The Role of Counterfactual Dependence as an Independent, Non-causal Desert-determiner; 19. Generalist Theories of Causation. - 20. Singularist Theories of CausationAppendix: Contract Law and Causation: An Illustration; Bibliography; Index; Notes. - 6. Pruning the Law's Demands on a Concept of CausationIII. THE FIRST BLIND ALLEY: THE ATTEMPT TO REPLACE PROXIMATE CAUSATION WITH CULPABILITY AS A PREREQUISITE FOR LEGAL LIABILITY; 7. 'Negligence in the Air Will not Do'; 8. Conceptual Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence; 9. Normative Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence; 10. The Descriptive Inaccuracy of the Harm-within-the-Risk Analysis as Measuring Proximate Causation; IV. THE LEGAL PRESUPPOSITION OF THERE BEING 'INTERVENING CAUSES'. - The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors? This book argues that muchof the legal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Har
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