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• Title:Building better beings : a theory of moral responsibility / Manuel Vargas.
  
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• Variant Title:Theory of moral responsibility
  
• Author/Creator:Vargas, Manuel, 1973-
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Call Number: BJ45 .V37 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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  • Call Number: BJ45 .V37 2013
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Ethics--Psychological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Personal Autonomy
  Ethics
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:ix, 345 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:" ... Presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and moral responsibility"--Jacket, p. [4].
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199697540
  019969754X
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Building Blocks
  1. Folk Convictions
  2. Doubts About Libertarianism
  3. Nihilism and Revisionism
  4. Building a Better Theory
  pt. II Theory of Moral Responsibility
  5. Primacy of Reasons
  6. Justifying the Practice
  7. Responsible Agency
  8. Blame and Desert
  9. History and Manipulation
  10. Some Conclusions.