Ayuda
Ir al contenido

Dialnet


Resumen de Does being morally responsible depend on the ability to hold morally responsible?

Holly M. Smith

  • Michael McKenna�s Conversation and Responsibility is a genuine tour de force: a richly detailed, sustained argument for an innovative theory about the nature of moral responsibility, one that offers multiple layers of theoretical architectonic. Its depth repays equally deep examination, and I have learned a great deal from reading and thinking about it. Any philosopher seeking a rigorous yet generous introduction to the state of contemporary discussion on moral responsibility could hardly do better than to read this book. It is true that I am not yet persuaded by McKenna�s central thesis that the most illuminating way to understand moral responsibility is to view it as a type of interpersonal conversation. And I am dubious that his strategy of accounting for the �fittingness� of blaming responses in terms of the �intelligibility� of such responses as part of a conversation can really be made to pan out. Nonetheless I greatly appreciated a great number of the positions and proposals mad ...


Fundación Dialnet

Dialnet Plus

  • Más información sobre Dialnet Plus