C. Pulman 
Hart on Responsibility 

A collection of essays discussing Herbert Hart’s writings on responsibility. The essays focus upon Hart’s work on causation in the law and on the justification of punishment. Specific topics discussed include senses of ‘responsibility’, voluntariness, Mill’s harm principle, mens rea, excuses, the Hart-Wootton debate, and negligence.

Inhoudsopgave

Notes on Contributors Introduction; C. G. Pulman 1. Hart’s Senses of ‘Responsibility’; Karin Boxer 2. Voluntary Interventions; C. G. Pulman 3. Causing Things and Doing Things; Helen Steward 4. A Framework for Punishment: What is the Insight of Hart’s ‘Prolegomenon’?; Douglas Husak 5. Legal Responses to Consensual Sexuality Among Adults: Through and Beyond the Harm Principle; Matthew H. Kramer 6. Revisiting the Hart/Wootton Debate on Responsibility; Matt Matravers and Arina Cocoru 7. Hart’s Choices; Gideon Yaffe 8. Hart, Punishment, and Excusing Conditions; Erasmus Mayr 9. Hart and Punishment for Negligence; Larry Alexander Bibliography Index

Over de auteur

Larry Alexander, University of San Diego, USA Karin Boxer, Amherst College, USA Arina Cocoru, New York University School of Law, USA Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, USA Matthew H. Kramer, University of Cambridge, UK Matt Matravers, University of York, UK Erasmus Mayr, University of Oxford, UK Helen Steward, University of Leeds, UK Gideon Yaffe, Yale Law School, USA