Moral Responsibility A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Beginning in childhood, and continuing throughout our lives, we are immersed in a web of evaluations, attitudes, and practices that are evidence of our deep commitment to moral responsibility. At the same time, we may encounter puzzles and perplexities that may encourage scepticism about moral responsibility. This Very Short Introduction explores our understanding of moral responsibility and what it involves. This includes various practical problems that we face in dealing with it in a truthful, effective, and humane way. The picture presented is one that falls in the territory that lies between a consoling optimism and a bleak pessimism about our human ethical predicament. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

1 - The landscape of responsibility
2 - The erosion of responsibility
3 - Responding to evil
4 - Responsibility Realism - living without illusion

Paul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at Lund University and also Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. At Lund he serves as the Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project. His primary areas of research are free will and moral responsibility and early modern philosophy. He has held a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Virginia and Pittsburgh University. In 2010 he was Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and in 2023 a Beaufort Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge.