Lawyers who write about responsibility tend to focus on criminal law at the expense of civil and public law; while philosophers tend to treat responsibility as a moral concept,and either ignore the law or consider legal responsibility to be a more or less distorted reflection of its moral counterpart. This book aims to counteract both of these biases. By adopting a comparative ...(展开全部)

T. M. Scanlon is one of the world’s leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays, written between 2001 and 2021, Scanlon reflects on the lines of thinking that led him to these views, considers objections to them, and locates them in relation to the views of others...(展开全部)

T. M. Scanlon is one of the world’s leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays, written between 2001 and 2021, Scanlon reflects on the lines of thinking that led him to these views, considers objections to them, and locates them in relation to the views of others...(展开全部)

H.L.A. HART was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford until 1968, and is the author of The Concept of Law (1961), The Morality of the Criminal Law (1965), Punishment and Responsibility (1967), and, with A. M. Honore, Causation in the Law (1959).

H.L.A. HART was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford until 1968, and is the author of The Concept of Law (1961), The Morality of the Criminal Law (1965), Punishment and Responsibility (1967), and, with A. M. Honore, Causation in the Law (1959).