Description: The Attribution of Blame Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Causality, Responsibility, and Blameworthiness Author(s): K.G. Shaver Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. ISBN-13: 9781461295617, 978-1461295617 Synopsis How can we identify the causes of events? What does it mean to assert that someone is responsible for a moral affront? Under what circumstances should we blame others for wrongdoing? The related, but conceptually distinct, issues of causality, responsibility, and blameworthiness that are the subject of this book play a critical role in our everyday social encounters. As very young children we learn to assert that "it wasn't my fault," or that "I didn't mean to do it." Responsibility and blame follow us into adulthood, as personal or organizational failings require explanation. Although judgments of moral accountability are quickly made and adamantly defended, the process leading to those judgments is not as simple as it might seem. Psychological research on causality and responsibility has not taken complete advantage of a long tradition of philosophical analysis of these concepts. Philosophical discussions, for their part, have not been sufficiently I1ware of the psychological realities. An assignment of blame is a social explanation. It is the outcome of a process that begins with an event having negative consequences, involves judgments about causality, personal responsibility, and possible mitigation. The result can be an assertion, or a denial, of individual blameworthiness. The purpose of this book is to develop a comprehensive theory of how people assign blame.
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Book Title: The Attribution of Blame
Number of Pages: 194 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Attribution of Blame: Causality, Responsibility, and Blameworthiness
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Law, Psychology, Business
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 324 g
Type: Textbook
Author: K.G. Shaver
Series: Springer Series in Social Psychology
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
