Conversation and Responsibility

by Michael McKenna

In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P. F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent and those who hold her morally responsible is similar to the relation between a speaker and her audience. A responsible agent's actions are bearers of meaning--agent meaning--just as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190857781
• ISBN13: 9780190857783
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"