Action, Ethics, and Responsibility

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Action, Ethics, and Responsibility: A Framework 1 Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein 2 A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing 25 David K. Chan 3 Killing John to Save Mary: A Defense of the Moral Distinction between Killing and Letting Die 47 Helen Frowe 4 Making Up One’s Mind 67 Randolph Clarke 5 Conscious Intentions 85 Alfred R. Mele 6 Locke’s Compatibilism: Suspension of Desire or Suspension of Determinism? 109 Charles T. Wolfe 7 The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom 127 E. J. Coffman and Donald Smith 8 Selective Hard Compatibilism 149 Paul Russell 9 Manipulation and Guidance Control: A Reply to Long 175 John Martin Fischer 10 Free Will: Some Bad News 187 Saul Smilansky vi Contents 11 Responsibility and Practical Reason 203 George Sher 12 The Metaphysics of Collective Agency 219 Todd Jones 13 Moral Judgment and Volitional Incapacity 235 Antti Kauppinen 14 “So Sick He Deserves It”: Desert, Dangerousness, and Character in the Context of Capital Sentencing 259 Robert F. Schopp 15 Types of Terror Bombing and Shifting Responsibility 281 Frances Kamm Contributors 295 Index 297 ...