Obligation and Responsibility

Obligation and Responsibility challenges widely held perspectives on moral responsibility and moral obligation. Apart from one key distinction, author Ishtiyaque Haji argues that moral responsibility and moral obligation share analogous freedom requirements, are threatened by determinism based on these requirements, and are susceptible to change.

List of contents

• 1. Obligation and Responsibility: Four Alleged Differences


• 2. Alternate Possibility (AP) Arguments for Varieties of Incompatibilism


• 3. Obligation Semicompatibilism


• 4. Responsibility Semicompatibilism


• 5. The Free Will Premise


• 6. Internalism and Externalism


• 7. More Radical Reversal Stories and Appraisals


• 8. Obligation, Blameworthiness, and Time


• 9. Obligation, Overridingness, and Punishment


• 10. Concluding Reflections

About the author

Ishtiyaque Haji is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His research interests include ethical theory, philosophy of action, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology.

Summary

Obligation and Responsibility challenges widely held perspectives on moral responsibility and moral obligation. Apart from one key distinction, author Ishtiyaque Haji argues that moral responsibility and moral obligation share analogous freedom requirements, are threatened by determinism based on these requirements, and are susceptible to change.

Product details

• Authors: Ishtiyaque Haji, Ishtiyaque (Professor of Philosophy Haji, Haji Ishtiyaque
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197657829
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765782-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates