Add to ORKGProfessor Weinrib\u27s Causation and Wrongdoing is a very complicated and difficult paper, rich in ideas and detailed argument. The essay has both positive and critical ambitions. Weinrib criticizes the efforts to explain the normative significance of causation advanced by Professors Judith Thomson, Richard Epstein and myself. His positive view is that causation and wrongdoing are (in some sense) conceptually connected, and, because of this connection, they constitute separately necessary and jointly sufficient conditions of a coherent and justifiable scheme of tort liability
The concept of causation is essential to ascribing moral and legal responsibility since the only way...
This is a draft of my chapter on Negligence for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook in Moral Psychology....
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that p...
Professor Weinrib\u27s Causation and Wrongdoing is a very complicated and difficult paper, rich in i...
Tort law depends on three key concepts: causation, responsibility, and fault. However, I argue that ...
Philosophers and laymen alike are strongly attracted to the view that the infringement of a right ca...
This paper deals with the relationship between legal responsibility and causation. I argue that lega...
Professor Judith Jarvis Thomson\u27s provocative article, \u27The Decline of Cause,\u27 focuses on t...
What justifies tort law? Once we identify a domain that is central to if not co-extensive with “tort...
In this Essay, Professor Matsuda argues that the narrow dyadic focus of tort law perpetuates very re...
Common-sense morality divides acts into those that are right and those that are wrong, but it thinks...
The paper has dual aim: to analyse the structure of negligence, and to use it to offer an explanatio...
Causation plays an essential role in attributions of legal responsibility. How-ever, considerable co...
In contemporary tort theory, both economists and moralists advance the view that tort law can be und...
A personâs choices and actions can make them liable to defensive harms. Yet the nature of moral liab...
The concept of causation is essential to ascribing moral and legal responsibility since the only way...
This is a draft of my chapter on Negligence for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook in Moral Psychology....
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that p...
Professor Weinrib\u27s Causation and Wrongdoing is a very complicated and difficult paper, rich in i...
Tort law depends on three key concepts: causation, responsibility, and fault. However, I argue that ...
Philosophers and laymen alike are strongly attracted to the view that the infringement of a right ca...
This paper deals with the relationship between legal responsibility and causation. I argue that lega...
Professor Judith Jarvis Thomson\u27s provocative article, \u27The Decline of Cause,\u27 focuses on t...
What justifies tort law? Once we identify a domain that is central to if not co-extensive with “tort...
In this Essay, Professor Matsuda argues that the narrow dyadic focus of tort law perpetuates very re...
Common-sense morality divides acts into those that are right and those that are wrong, but it thinks...
The paper has dual aim: to analyse the structure of negligence, and to use it to offer an explanatio...
Causation plays an essential role in attributions of legal responsibility. How-ever, considerable co...
In contemporary tort theory, both economists and moralists advance the view that tort law can be und...
A personâs choices and actions can make them liable to defensive harms. Yet the nature of moral liab...
The concept of causation is essential to ascribing moral and legal responsibility since the only way...
This is a draft of my chapter on Negligence for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook in Moral Psychology....
In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that p...