Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honour of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday

by Peter Cane, John Gardner

Overview

The essays in this volume,written by eight of the world's leading legal theorists and philosophers, began life as papers presented at seminars (held in Canberra and New York) devoted to the ideas of Tony Honoré, who is one of the most important legal thinkers of his generation. The focus is on issues dealt with in Honoré's recent book, Responsibility and Fault (1999), including determinism and luck, causation, outcome responsibility, and the morality of strict liability. Honoré's book, and these essays, discuss fundamental questions about the relationship between moral and legal responsibility. They explore the contribution that the philosophy of action and of mind can make to understanding the law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841132105
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/19/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	xi
	About the contributors	xiii
1	Responsibility and self-control	1
2	The capacity to have done otherwise: an agent-centred view	21
3	Private law and private narratives	37
4	Honore on responsibility for outcomes	61
5	Responsibility and fault: a relational and functional approach to responsibility	81
6	Obligations and outcomes in the law of torts	111
7	Unpacking "causation"	145
8	Private law: between visionaries and bricoleurs	187
9	Appreciations and responses	219
	Index	241

Editorial Reviews

The contributors' essays represent, in my view, a catalogue of one of the best examinations 'by committee' on an aspect of the work of a single scholar.
The review essays are splendidly written, intellectually engaging with absolutely no punches pulled.
All of them however, demonstrate a rare combination of humility and rigor in their assessment of his work showing a great deal of respect for his exceptional passion for the most demanding subject, as so many others have done before.” —The Law and Politics Book Review

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