David Shoemaker is Professor of Philosophy at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author or co-author of two books and thirty-five articles, many of them having to do with the issues of agency, responsibility, and personal identity.

• Introduction


• 1: Derek Lam: Stipulative Agency


• 2: Lilian O'Brien: Answerability Without Reasons


• 3: Michael E. Bratman: Shared Intention, Organized Institutions


• 4: Christa Peterson and Jack Samuel: The Right and the Wren


• 5: Aness Webster: Social-Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities


• 6: Daniel Burnston: Pluralistic Attitude-Explanation and the Mechanisms of Intentional Action


• 7: Daniel Telech: Praise as Moral Address


• 8: Hannah Tierney: Guilty Confessions


• 9: Jada Twedt Strabbing: Blame and Blameworthy Presentation: A (Mostly) Ecumenical Account of Blame


• 10: Pamela Hieronymi: Fairness, Sanction, and Condemnation


• 11: David Beglin: Unconditional Forgiveness and Normative Condescension


• 12: Carla Bagnoli: Disclaiming Responsibility, Voicing Disagreements, and Negotiating Boundaries

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a forum for outstanding new work in an area of vigorous and broad-ranging debate in philosophy and beyond. What is involved in human action? Can philosophy and science illuminate debate about free will? How should we answer questions about responsibility for action?