The Nature of Responsibility
This chapter is concerned with how we should understand responsibility in general. It provides the foundation of the discussion of criminal responsibility in Chapter 2. A version of compatibilism (the argument that responsibility is compatible with determinism) is outlined and defended.
Keywords: compatibilism, determinism, criminal responsibility
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