{"product_id":"fair-opportunity-and-responsibility-hardcover","title":"Fair Opportunity and Responsibility - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid O. Brink\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFair Opportunity and Responsibility\u003c\/em\u003e lies at the intersection of moral psychology and criminal jurisprudence and analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. It links responsibility with the reactive attitudes but makes the justification of\u003cbr\u003ethe reactive attitudes depend on a prior and independent conception of responsibility. Responsibility and excuse are inversely related; an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused. As a result, we can study responsibility by understanding excuses. We excuse misconduct\u003cbr\u003ewhen an agent's capacities or opportunities are significantly impaired, because these capacities and opportunities are essential if agents are to have a fair opportunity to avoid wrongdoing. This conception of excuse tells us that responsibility itself consists in agents having suitable cognitive\u003cbr\u003eand volitional capacities - normative competence - and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities free from undue interference - situational control. Because our reactive attitudes and practices presuppose the fair opportunity conception of responsibility, this supports a predominantly\u003cbr\u003eretributive conception of blame and punishment that treats culpable wrongdoing as the desert basis of blame and punishment. We can then apply the fair opportunity framework to assessing responsibility and excuse in circumstances of structural injustice, situational influences in ordinary\u003cbr\u003ecircumstances and in wartime, insanity and psychopathy, immaturity, addiction, and crimes of passion. Though fair opportunity has important implications for each issue, treating them together allows us to explore common themes and appreciate the need to take partial responsibility and excuse\u003cbr\u003eseriously in our practices of blame and punishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid O. Brink, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His research is in ethical theory, history of ethics, moral psychology, and jurisprudence. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMoral Realism and The Foundations of Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP 1989), \u003cem\u003ePerfectionism and the Common Good\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2003), and \u003cem\u003eMill's Progressive Principles\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2013). He received a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Minnesota (1980) and a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University (1984). He served as Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University and as Assistant and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining UC San Diego in 1994. He gave the 2013 Lindley Lecture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.28 x 6.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728588574783,"sku":"9780198859468","price":108.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bdb151edce2d3d500c2fba312e5293f7.webp?v=1765119051","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/fair-opportunity-and-responsibility-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}