Sneddon, Andrew. <br/><br/>
Action and Responsibility  [electronic resource] / 
by Andrew Sneddon. 
 - IX, 198 p.  online resource. 
 - Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy,  18  1387-6678 ; .
 - Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy,  18 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781402039829 99781402039829 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/1-4020-3982-4  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL).<br/>ETHICS.<br/>METAPHYSICS.<br/>PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCES--PHILOSOPHY.<br/>PHILOSOPHY.<br/>METAPHYSICS.<br/>ETHICS.<br/>PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.<br/>PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>110