Agency, Negligence and Responsibility

Description

This collection of essays represents a ground-breaking collaboration between moral philosophers, action theorists, lawyers and legal theorists to set a fresh research agenda on agency and responsibility in negligence. The complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence is analysed from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives, shedding light on key ethical and legal issues related to agency and negligence to impact substantive law and policy-making in different jurisdictions. The volume introduces new debates and questions old assumptions, inviting the reader to rethink substantive law and practical ethical reflection.

Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence) at the University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. Her publications include Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good (2014), and Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency (co-edited with George Pavlakos, Cambridge, 2015). George Pavlakos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. As well as co-editor of Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency, he is an editor of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Law, author of Our Knowledge of the Law (2007) and general editor of the book series Law and Practical Reason.