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Action and Responsibility / by Andrew Sneddon
(Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. ISSN:22150323 ; 18)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2006
Edition	1st ed. 2006.
Authors	*Sneddon, Andrew author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Notes	Two Questions -- Ascriptivism Resurrected: The Case for Ascriptivism -- Ascriptivism Defended: The Case Against Ascriptivism -- Responsibility and Causation I: Legal Responsibility -- Responsibility and Causation II: Moral Responsibility -- Foundationalism and the Production Question -- Foundationalism and the Status Question: Strong Productionism -- Nouveau Volitionism -- Weak Productionism -- Concluding Reflections on Ascriptivism and Action What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls "productionism", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3982-4
Subjects	LCSH:Metaphysics LCSH:Ethics LCSH:Philosophy of mind LCSH:Philosophy and social sciences FREE:Metaphysics FREE:Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics FREE:Philosophy of Mind FREE:Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Classification	LCC:BD95-131 DC23:110
ID	8000065365
ISBN	9781402039829