Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology

By Jeanette Kennett

Book Overview

Distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will, and compulsion have been the targets of much philosophical attack. Beginning with the problem of weakness of will, this volume builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency that highly regards the capacity for self-control. It addresses with clarity a range of important topics-such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness-making this work especially important to those interested in philosophy, psychology, law, and moral and legal responsibility in general.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199266301
• ISBN13: 9780199266302
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"