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Rethinking Responsibility (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Responsibility (Hardcover)
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This book explores moral responsibility, and whether it is
compatible with causal determinism. Its author, K. E. Boxer,
started out with deeply incompatibilist intuitions but became
dissatisfied with the arguments that she and other contemporary
incompatibilists marshalled in support of this view. Rethinking
Responsibility has evolved out of her search for a more adequate
argument. Boxer suggests that if incompatibilists are to be in a
position to provide such an argument, they must shift their
attention away from metaphysics and back to what H. L. A. Hart
deemed the primary sense of the concept of moral responsibility,
viz., the sense of liability. To say that an agent is morally
responsible for an action in this sense is to say that she
satisfies the necessary causal and capacity conditions for desert
of certain forms of response. If incompatibilists are to show that
among those conditions is a requirement for some form of ultimate
responsibility incompatible with determinism, they must first
clarify their understanding of moral desert and the moral responses
associated with attributions of responsibility. The book examines
different possible understandings of moral liability-responsibility
based on different possible accounts of the nature of moral blame,
the moral desert of punishment, and the relation between desert of
moral blame and desert of punishment. A focal point throughout the
discussion is whether, on any of the possible understandings, moral
responsibility would require agents to be ultimately responsible
for their actions in a way incompatible with causal determinism.
Other issues discussed include what renders a defect a moral defect
or a particular criticism a moral criticism, whether moral
obligations are act-governing or will-governing, the connection
between the moral reactive attitudes and the retributive
sentiments, the relevance of the capacity to participate in
ordinary interpersonal relationships, and whether it is possible to
understand the moral desert of punishment in communicative terms.
Boxer concludes that incompatibilists face an unenviable choice:
either they must adopt an understanding of the moral desert of
punishment that many find morally problematic, or they must abandon
incompatibilism.
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