Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath - The Value of Others

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Moral Responsibility; 2. Psychopathy; 3. Psychopathy and Moral Responsibility; 4. Emotions and Value; 5. Empathy and Moral Development; 6 Psychopathy in the Criminal Law; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jim Baxter is Professional Ethics Consultancy Team Leader at the University of Leeds's Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre. His recent research focuses on professionalism in banking and integrity in organisations.

Summary

Are psychopaths morally responsible? Should we argue with them? Remonstrate with them, blame them, sometimes even praise them? In this book, Jim Baxter aims to find serious answers to these philosophical questions, drawing on contemporary insights from psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience and law.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Baxter, Jim (University of Leeds) Baxter, Baxter Jim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781316516867
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51686-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: logic