The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts – on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility – within which the following key topics are examined:
- responsibility and wrongdoing
- responsibility and determinism
- the scope of responsibility
- the responsibility of individuals within society
- the concepts of responsibility
- the conditions and challenges of responsibility
- the practices of being and holding responsible
- the ethics and politics of responsibility
- responsibility in the law
Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related fields such as politics, law, and policymaking.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related disciplines such as politics, law, and policymaking.
Introduction Maximilian Kiener Part 1: The History of Responsibility
Section 1: Responsibility and Wrongdoing
1. Plato on Vice Marcel van Ackeren
2. Hegel on Guilt Mark Alznauer Section 2: Responsibility and Determinism
3.
The Stoics: What Kind of Responsibility is Compatible with Divine Providence?
Rachana Kamtekar
4. Hobbes Against Bramhall: Moral Responsibility, Free Will,
and Mechanistic Determination Thomas Pink
5. Hume on Free Will and Moral
Responsibility Peter Millican
6. Sidgwick on Free Will and Ethics Anthony
Skelton Section 3: The Scope of Responsibility
7. Aristotle on Legal and
Moral Responsibility: Interpretation and Reform Terence Irwin
8. Kant on
Absolute Responsibility and Transcendental Freedom David Sussman Section 4:
Individuals and Society
9. Responsibility in Confucian Thought David Wong
10.
Aquinas on Holding Others to Blame Jeffrey Hause Part 2: The Theory of
Responsibility Section 5: The Concepts of Responsibility
11. Responsibility
and Agency Maria Alvarez
12. Responsibility and Causation Alex Kaiserman
13.
Responsibility and The Deep Self Monika Betzler
14. Responsibility and
Emotion Andreas Carlsson
15. Varieties of Answerability Maximilian Kiener
Section 6: The Conditions and Challenges of Responsibility
16. The
Consequences of Incompatibilism Patrick Todd
17. Free Will and The Case for
Compatibilism Carolina Sartorio
18. Deliberation and the Possibility of
Skepticism Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette
19. Responsibility and Manipulation
Massimo Renzo
20. Responsibility and Coercion Carla Bagnoli
21. Ignorance and
the Epistemic Condition Daniel Miller
22. Moral Competence and Mental
Disorder Lubomira Radoilska
23. Excuse, Capacity and Convention David Owens
Part 3: The Practice of Responsibility Section 7: Being and Holding
Responsible
24. Blaming Leonhard Menges
25. Communicating Praise Daniel
Telech
26. The Standing to Blame Matt King
27. Apology and Forgiveness Andrea
Westlund
28. Taking Responsibility Elinor Mason
29. Responsibility Without
Blame Bruce Waller
30. Holding Responsible in the African Tradition:
Reconciliation Applied to Punishment, Compensation, and Trials Thaddeus Metz
Section 8: The Ethics and Politics of Responsibility
31. Artificial
Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance
as Social Care Shannon Vallor and Bhargavi Ganesh
32. Moral Responsibility
for Historical Injustice Michael Schefczyk
33. Corporate Digital
Responsibility Alexander Filipovi
34. Reckless Complicity: International
Banks and Future Climate Henry Shue
35. Responsibility and Gender Paula Casal
Section 9: Responsibility in the Law
36. Legal and Moral Responsibility Peter
Cane
37. The Voluntary Act Requirement in Criminal Law John Hyman
38. Strict
Liability and Strict Responsibility Antony Duff
39. Responsibility and
Pre-Trial Detention Kim Ferzan
40. Responsibility for Others Jenny Steele
41.
Legitimate Divergence Between Moral and Criminal Blame Alexander Sarch. Index
Maximilian Kiener is a Junior Professor of Philosophy and Ethics in Technology at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He specialises in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. His book Voluntary Consent: Theory and Practice is also published by Routledge.
