Who Knew?: Responsibility Without Awareness

by George Sher

Book Overview

To be responsible for their acts, agents must both perform those acts voluntarily and in some sense know what they are doing. Of these requirements, the voluntariness condition has been much discussed, but the epistemic condition has received far less attention. In Who Knew? George Sher seeks to rectify that imbalance. The book is divided in two halves, the first of which criticizes a popular but inadequate way of understanding the epistemic condition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195389190
• ISBN13: 9780195389197
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"