Shared Intentions and Collective Responsibility, Volume XXX - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405160365 ISBN 13 : 9781405160360

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

This volume of Midwest Studies focuses on the currently hot topic in ethics and action theory of shared intentions and relates it to issues in collective responsibility. Each of the essays in the volume is by an internationally known scholar who has published seminal pieces on various aspects of the concepts of shared intention and collective responsibility.

• Features all new essays that expand the discussion and invite those interested in the topic to examine a variety of ways for understanding the basic idea and the application of the notion of shared intention to a range of contemporary issues in the ethics of responsibility

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter A French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair in Ethics at the University of South Florida and before that he was the Lennox Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He was the Exxon Distinguished Research Professor on the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware and a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of seventeen books including The Virtues of Vengeance; Cowboy Metaphysics; Ethics and Death in Westerns; Corporate Ethics; Responsibility Matters; Corporations in the Moral Community; The Spectrum of Responsibility; Collective and Corporate Responsibility; Corrigible Corporation and Unruly Laws; Ethics in Government and The Scope of Morality. He has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been authorized.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion and is the author of The Magic Prism; An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (2003), and Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays (1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405160365
• ISBN 13: 9781405160360
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 351
• Éditeur: French Peter A., Wettstein Howard K.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible