Switch to: Citations

Add references

You must login to add references.
  1. Moral dimensions: permissibility, meaning, blame.Thomas Scanlon - 2008 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
    The illusory appeal of double effect -- The significance of intent -- Means and ends -- Blame.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   601 citations  
  • Attributability, Answerability, and Accountability: Toward a Wider Theory of Moral Responsibility.David Shoemaker - 2011 - Ethics 121 (3):602-632.
    Recently T. M. Scanlon and others have advanced an ostensibly comprehensive theory of moral responsibility—a theory of both being responsible and being held responsible—that best accounts for our moral practices. I argue that both aspects of the Scanlonian theory fail this test. A truly comprehensive theory must incorporate and explain three distinct conceptions of responsibility—attributability, answerability, and accountability—and the Scanlonian view conflates the first two and ignores the importance of the third. To illustrate what a truly comprehensive theory might look (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   134 citations  
  • Mr. Herbert Spencer's theory of society.F. W. Maitland - 1883 - Mind 8 (31):354-371.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations