Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Volume 1

Edited by David Shoemaker

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

A showcase for new work on a set of fascinating topics
The only regular publication devoted to this area of philosophy
Presents a diversity of topics and approaches
Brings together moral philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics
Connects philosophical questions to psychology, neuroscience, and legal theory
Essential reading for scholars and graduate students working in the area

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Volume 1

Edited by David Shoemaker

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Description

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
--What does it mean to be an agent?
--What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?
--What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?
--What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
--How do moral agents develop? How does this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of moral judgment and responsibility?
--What do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility?
OSAR thus straddles the areas of moral philosophy and philosophy of action, but also draws from a diverse range of cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology proper (including experimental and developmental), philosophy of psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics, neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and (inter)actors, embodied practical agents negotiating (sometimes unsuccessfully) a world of moral and legal norms.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Volume 1

Edited by David Shoemaker

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

1. Introduction
2. The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-Alienation, David Shoemaker
3. The Possibility of Action as the Impossibility of Certain Forms of Self-Alienation, Sarah Buss
4. The Fecundity of Planning Agency, Michael E. Bratman
5. Can I Only Intend My Own Actions? Intentions and the Own Action Condition, Luca Ferrero
6. Regret, Agency, and Error, Daniel Jacobson
7. Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency, Oisin Deery, Matt Bedke, and Shaun Nichols
8. Reasons-Responsiveness, Agents and Mechanisms, Michael McKenna
9. Responsibility, Naturalism and 'the Morality System', Paul Russell
10. The Three-Fold Significance of the Blaming Emotions, Zac Cogley
11. Unwitting Wrongdoers and the Role of Moral Disagreement in Blame, Matthew Talbert
12. Partial Desert, Tamler Sommers
13. Values, Sanity, and Responsibility, Heidi L. Maibom
14. Fairness and the Architecture of Responsibility, David O. Brink and Dana K. Nelkin
Index

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Volume 1

Edited by David Shoemaker

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Author Information

David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author or co-author of two books and thirty-five articles, many of them having to do with the issues of agency, responsibility, and personal identity.

Contributors:

Matt Bedke, University of British Columbia
Michael E. Bratman, Stanford University
David O. Brink, University of California, San Diego
Sarah Buss, University of Michigan
Zac Cogley, Northern Michigan University
Oisín Deery, University of British Columbia
Luca Ferrero, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Daniel Jacobson, University of Michigan
Heidi L. Maibom, Carleton University
Dana K. Nelkin, University of California, San Diego
Michael McKenna, University of Arizona
Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona
Paul Russell, University of British Columbia
Tamler Sommers, University of Houston
Matthew Talbert, West Virginia University

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Volume 1

Edited by David Shoemaker

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility

Reviews and Awards

"David Shoemaker's clear and useful introduction is an indispensable guide to this rich volume...This collection of papers will be a valuable resource for anybody working on theories of agency and moral responsibility. I hope it will also serve as a reminder of the vast range of issues for which a theory of agency matters and of the importance of explanatory breadth as a criterion for theoretical adequacy." -- Ethics