Causation and responsibility : an essay in law, morals, and metaphysics /
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| Author / Creator: | Moore, Michael S., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xxvi, 605 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7488790 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Cases
- List of Statutes
- I. The Role of Causation in Moral and Legal Responsibility
- 1. The Embedding of Causation in Legal Liability Doctrines
- 2. Causation and Moral Blameworthiness
- 3. Causation and the Permissibility of Consequentialist Justification within Agent-Relative Morality and the Law
- II. Presuppositions About The Nature Of Causation by Legal Doctrines
- 4. The Law's Own Characterizations of its Causal Requirements
- 5. The Prima Facie Demands of the Law on the Concept of Causation
- 6. Pruning the Law's Demands on a Concept of Causation
- III. The First Blind Alley: The Attempt to Replace Proximate Causation With Culpability as A Prerequisite for Legal Liability
- 7. 'Negligence in the Air Will not Do'
- 8. Conceptual Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence
- 9. Normative Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the-Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence
- 10. The Descriptive Inaccuracy of the Harm-within-the-Risk Analysis as Measuring Proximate Causation
- IV. The Legal Presupposition of There Being 'Intervening Causes'
- 11. The Legal Doctrines of Intervening Causation
- 12. The Lack of any Metaphysical Basis for the Doctrines of Intervening Causation
- 13. The Superfluity of Accomplice Liability
- V. The Metaphysics of Causal Relata
- 14. A Prolegomenon to the Issue of Causal Relata
- 15. The Facts, Events, States of Affairs, and Tropes Debate
- VI. The Metaphysics of the Causal Relation
- 16. Counterfactual Conditionals
- 17. The Counterfactual Theory of Causation
- 18. The Role of Counterfactual Dependence as an Independent, Non-causal Desert-determiner
- 19. Generalist Theories of Causation
- 20. Singularist Theories of Causation
- Appendix: Contract Law and Causation: An Illustration
- Bibliography
- Index