Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness

Name: Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness
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ISBN: 9780195389203

ISBN-10: 0195389204

ISBN-13: 9780195389203

Edition: 2009

Authors: George Sher

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To be responsible for their acts, agents must both perform those acts voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the epistemic condition has received far less attention. In Who Knew? George Sher seeks to rectify that imbalance. The book is divided in two halves, the first of which criticizes a popular but inadequate way of understanding the epistemic condition, while the second seeks to develop a more adequate alternative. It is often assumed that agents are responsible only for what they are aware of doing or bringing about--that their responsibility extends only as far as the searchlight of their…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgements



The Searchlight View



Responsibility Without Awareness



Responsibility and Practical Reason



Kantian Fairness



Knew--Or Should Have Known?



A New Beginning



Setting the Norms of Recognition



The Responsible Self



Out of Control


Index