Moral Responsibility Beyond Our Fingertips - Collective Responsibility, Leaders, and Attributionism

We are responsible not only for what we think and feel but for what others do and for what we would have done. This book expands and updates the original attributionist theory of responsibility and applies it to pressing contemporary issues such as collective responsibility, leaders’ responsibility for their followers’ acts, and addiction.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Chapter One: The Big Picture
Chapter Two: Agency, Moral Responsibility, and Addiction
Chapter Three: Leader Responsibility (Is Trump to Blame?)
Chapter Four: Collective Responsibility
Chapter Five Counterfactual Responsibility
Appendix I: Featurism
Appendix II: List of Distinctions
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Eugene Schlossberger is professor emeritus of philosophy at Purdue University Northwest.

Summary

We are responsible not only for what we think and feel but for what others do and for what we would have done. This book expands and updates the original attributionist theory of responsibility and applies it to pressing contemporary issues such as collective responsibility, leaders’ responsibility for their followers’ acts, and addiction.

Product details

• Authors: EUGEN SCHLOSSBERGER, Eugene Schlossberger
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793633576
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-357-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, Politics & government, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Communication Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Interpersonal communication and skills, Interpersonal communication & skills, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships