David Shoemaker develops a novel pluralistic theory of responsibility, motivated by our ambivalence to cases of marginal agency--such as those caused by clinical depression or autism, for instance. He identifies three distinct types of responsibility, each with its own set of required capacities: attributability, answerability, and accountability.

• Preface


• Introduction


• PART ONE: THE TRIPARTITE THEORY OF RESPONSIBILITY


• The Tripartite Profile: A Chart


• 1: Attributability


• 2: Answerability


• 3: Accountability


• PART TWO: AMBIVALENCE AT THE MARGINS


• Marginal Ambivalence: A Chart


• 4: Depression and Scrupulosity: The Boundaries of the Deep Self


• 5: Psychopathy and Autism: The Limits of Regard


• 6: Psychopathy and Intellectual Disability: Impairments of Judgment


• 7: Deprivation and Dementia: How History Does and Doesn't Matter


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

David Shoemaker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is the author of numerous articles on agency and moral responsibility, normative and applied ethics, and personal identity, and he is the general editor of the series Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.