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Action and Responsibility

Action and Responsibility

by Andrew Sneddon
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/11/2010

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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.
ISBN:
9789048170081
9789048170081
Category:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-11-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
200
Dimensions (mm):
240x160x11mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Andrew Sneddon

Andrew Sneddon is co-owner and a director of Australia's largest specialist heritage consultancy, Extent Heritage. He has lived and worked in Melbourne and Sydney, and been involved in archaeological research excavations around the world, including in Cyprus, Syria, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Italy, Greece, Cambodia and Myanmar.

Andrew was the Director of UQ's Culture and Heritage Unit from 2009 to 2017. He currently lives in Brisbane with his wife and son. Prehistoric Joy is his first book.

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