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Hart on Responsibility

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  • © 2014

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  1. Christopher Pulman

    1. London, UK

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Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Christopher Pulman
    Pages 1-29

  3. Hart’s Senses of ‘Responsibility’

    • Karin Boxer
    Pages 30-46

  4. Voluntary Interventions

    • Christopher Pulman
    Pages 47-70

  5. Causing Things and Doing Things

    • Helen Steward
    Pages 71-90

  6. A Framework for Punishment: What Is the Insight of Hart’s ‘Prolegomenon’?

    • Douglas Husak
    Pages 91-108

  7. Legal Responses to Consensual Sexuality between Adults: Through and beyond the Harm Principle

    • Matthew H. Kramer
    Pages 109-128

  8. Revisiting the Hart/Wootton Debate on Responsibility

    • Matt Matravers, Arina Cocoru
    Pages 129-153

  9. Hart’s Choices

    • Gideon Yaffe
    Pages 154-173

  10. Hart, Punishment and Excusing Conditions

    • Erasmus Mayr
    Pages 174-194

  11. Hart and Punishment for Negligence

    • Larry Alexander
    Pages 195-205

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 206-215
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A collection of essays discussing Herbert Hart's writings on responsibility. The essays focus upon Hart's work on causation in the law and on the justification of punishment. Specific topics discussed include senses of 'responsibility', voluntariness, Mill's harm principle, mens rea, excuses, the Hart-Wootton debate, and negligence.

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  • London, UK

    Christopher Pulman

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Larry Alexander, University of San Diego, USA Karin Boxer, Amherst College, USA Arina Cocoru, New York University School of Law, USA Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, USA Matthew H. Kramer, University of Cambridge, UK Matt Matravers, University of York, UK Erasmus Mayr, University of Oxford, UK Helen Steward, University of Leeds, UK Gideon Yaffe, Yale Law School, USA

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