Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780199266302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str.

Jeanette Kennett

Opis

Distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will, and compulsion have been the targets of much philosophical attack. Beginning with the problem of weakness of will, this volume builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency that highly regards the capacity for self-control. It addresses with clarity a range of important topics-such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness-making this work especially important to those interested in philosophy, psychology, law, and moral and legal responsibility in general.

Recenzje

Jeanette Kennett has written a nicely balanced, informative and well-argued book on contemporary thought about agency and responsibility.... There are several points where the author's warmth and commitment to a moral life come through while she manages the rigors of analytic philosophy.