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In this wide-ranging investigation of many prominent issues in contemporary legal and political philosophy, eight distinguished philosophers and legal theorists (including Matthew Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Wilfrid Waluchow, and Nicholas Bamforth) tackle issues such as the rights of animals and foetuses, the relationship between law and politics, the requirements of justice, the demands of practical rationality, the role of public-policy considerations in legal reasoning, the fundamental characteristics of legal and moral entitlements, the appropriateness of compensation as a means of rectifying mishaps and misdeeds, the extent of individuals' responsibility for the consequences of their choices, and the culpability of failed attempts to commit crimes. Together, the eight principal essays in Rights, Wrongs, and Responsibilities shed philosophical light on public law, criminal law, and most areas of private law as they explore the bearings of the three key concepts in the volume's title.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
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NICHOLAS BAMFORTH University Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, Queen's College, Oxford
R.A. DUFF Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling
SANDRA MARSHALL Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling
RICHARD MULLENDER Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
CRAIG ROTHERAM Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
HELLEL STEINER Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester
W.J.WALUCHOW Professor of Philosophy, McMaster University
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities
Editors: Matthew H. Kramer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523630
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96329-6Published: 10 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42757-4Published: 10 October 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52363-0Published: 10 October 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 247
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History