Oxford studies in agency and responsibility. Volume 5 : themes from the philosophy of Gary Watson

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: · What does it mean to be an agent? · What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)? · What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will? · What do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility? · How do moral agents develop? How does this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of moral judgment and responsibility? · What do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility? No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent a career thinking about issues such as moral responsibility, blame, free will, weakness of will, addiction, and psychopathy. This special edition of OSAR pays tribute to Watson's work by taking up and extending themes from his pioneering essays. "'Oxford studies in agency and responsibility' is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: what does it mean to be an agent?; what is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?; What is the relation between responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free will?; what do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?; how do moral agents develop? How does this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of moral judgment and responsibility?; what do the results from neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and responsibility? OSAR thus straddles the areas of moral philosophy and philosophy of action, but also draws from a diverse range of cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology proper (including experimental and developmental), philosophy of psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics, neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and (inter)actors, embodied practical agents negotiating (sometimes unsuccessfully) a world of moral and legal norms"--Provided by publisher "No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent a career thinking about issues such as moral responsibility, blame, free will, weakness of will, addiction, and psychopathy. The chapters of this volume pay tribute to Watson’s work by taking up and extending themes from his pioneering essays. Themes covered include:: compatibilist views of freedom and moral responsibility, the distinction between attributability and accountability, the responsibility of psychopaths, the nature of blame and its relationship to morality, the relevance of addiction to responsibility, the continuing influence of P. F. Strawson’s work, the connection between criminal and moral responsibility, the philosophical development of Gary Watson and the ways Watson’s views have changed over time. Contributors include: Michael McKenna, Susan Wolf, Pamela Hieronymi, R. Jay Wallace, Michael Smith, T. M. Scanlon, Jeanette Kennett, Antony Duff, Gideon Yaffe, Gary Watson, Sarah Buss, Neal Tognazzini, and D. Justin Coates." -- Oxford Scholarship Online Contents List of Contributors Introduction • D. Justin Coates and Neal A. Tognazzini 1. Watsonian Compatibilism • Michael McKenna 2. Attributability and the Self • Susan Wolf 3. I’ll Bet You Think This Blame is About You • Pamela Hieronymi 4. Moral Address: What it Is, Why it Matters • R. Jay Wallace 5. Gary Watson: Strawsonian • Michael Smith 6. Learning from Psychopaths • T. M. Scanlon 7. Competence, Attributability, and Blame: Resolving the Responsibility of the Psychopath • Jeanette Kennett 8. Moral and Criminal Responsibility: Answering and Refusing to Answer • R. A. Duff 9. Compromised Addicts • Gideon Yaffe 10. Second Thoughts • Gary Watson 11. Transcript of an Interview with Gary Watson • Conducted by Sarah Buss Index No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent a career thinking about issues such as moral responsibility, blame, free will, addiction, and psychopathy. This text pays tribute to Watson's work by taking up and extending themes from his pioneering essays