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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
