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"In Five Ways Patricia Can Kill Her Husband, Leo Zaibert develops a new theory to explain how and why we blame. He maintains that culpability is concerned exclusively with the intentional mental states persons have at the time they act, and that intended evil is never less blameworthy than unintended evil."--BOOK JACKET.

Leo Zaibert is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(4)

1. On Culpability: The Logic of Blame

5

(28)

General Defenses and Modes of Culpability

12

(5)

The Basic Structure of a Theory of Culpability

17

(8)

Culpability and Moral Theory

25

(8)

2. Intentionality and the Apportioning of Blame: A Historical Analysis

33

(34)

Biblical Culpability and Lex Talionis

35

(4)

Formality of Lex Talionis

39

(4)

On the Transition from Biblical to Greco-Roman Culpability

43

(1)

Plato on Culpability: Hekousion and Akousion

44

(8)

Aristotle on Culpability: The Birth of Action Theory

52

(8)

Culpability in Roman Law

60

(7)

3. On the Proliferation of Modes of Culpability

67

(42)

Intention, Foresight, and Aquinas's Abandonment of Gradational Approaches

70

(4)

Justifications and the Epistemology of Intentional States

74

(4)

Intention, Foresight, and Culpability

78

(4)

Jeremy Bentham's Analysis of Intentionality

82

(5)

Advisedness, Heedlessness, and Rashness

87

(3)

Bentham, Normativity, and Dolus and Culpa

90

(4)

John Austin's Theory of Culpability

94

(4)

Austin, Normativity, and Dolus and Culpa

98

(3)

Theories of Culpability Today

101

(8)

4. Intentions, Volitions, and Actions

109

(40)

Objections to Traditional Volitional Theories

114

(8)

Alternative Accounts of Voluntariness and the Problem of Normativity

122

(7)

Michael Moore's Defense of the Volitional Theory of Action

129

(6)

Intentionality and the Logic of Action

135

(14)

5. The Distinction between Intentional and Unintentional Action

149

(30)

The Simple View

151

(8)

Analysis's "Problem 16" and the Tension between Normativity and Description

159

(5)

Another Look at the Distinction between Responsibility and Culpability

164

(7)

Intentionality, Epistemology, and Normativity

171

(8)

6. The Normative Force of Intentions

179

(36)

Intentions and the Belief/Desire Analysis of Intentional States

181

(10)

Intentions, Causality, and Presentations

191

(9)

Intentions, Rationality, and Commitments

200

(9)

Intentions and Personal Identity

209

(6)

7. Intentions and Blame

215

(32)

Blame, Communication, and Punishment

217

(7)

The Cognitive Dimension of Blame

224

(10)

The Emotional Dimension of Blame

234

(10)

Epilogue: Blame and Retribution

244

(3)

Bibliography

247

(8)

Index

255

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