TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sneddon,Andrew
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Action and Responsibility
T2  - Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy,
SN  - 9781402039829
U1  - 110 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL)
KW  - ETHICS
KW  - METAPHYSICS
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCES
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3982-4
ER  -