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Causation and Responsibility - An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,217
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Causation and Responsibility - An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics (Hardcover, New): Michael S. Moore

Causation and Responsibility - An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics (Hardcover, New)

Michael S. Moore

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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 much of the legal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honore to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates.
The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and then outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using these accounts criticizes many of the core legal concepts surrounding causation - such as intervening causation, forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law by using risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral responsibility.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2009
First published: March 2009
Authors: Michael S. Moore
Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925686-0
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 0-19-925686-1
Barcode: 9780199256860

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