Reflections on Ethics and Responsibility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Individual and Collective Responsibility

   • Andrew C. Khoury

   Pages 1-20

3. Monsters and Their Makers: Group Agency Without Moral Agency

   • Maike Albertzart

   Pages 21-35

4. French’s Influence on the Modern Discussion of Corporate Criminal Liability: The Case of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Compliance

   • Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez

   Pages 37-52

5. Ethnic Conflict and the Ethics of Care

   • Virginia Held

   Pages 53-70

6. Theories of Moral Responsibility and the Responsibility Barter Game

   • Michael McKenna

   Pages 71-84

7. Reflections on Obligation and Blameworthiness

   • Ishtiyaque Haji

   Pages 85-99

8. Responsibility, Obligation, and Climate Change

   • Tracy Isaacs

   Pages 101-116

9. The Ethical Morass of College Sports

   • William J. Morgan

   Pages 117-133

10. French on Innocence Lost

    • Deborah Tollefsen

    Pages 135-144

11. Evil and a Worthwhile Life

    • Zachary J. Goldberg

    Pages 145-163

12. Responsibility to Remember Injustice

    • Margaret Urban Walker

    Pages 165-183

13. The Ethics of Hostility

    • Leo Zaibert

    Pages 185-200

14. (Not) Riding into the Sunset: The Significance of Endings

    • John Martin Fischer, Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

    Pages 201-218

15. Moral Belief/Behavior Discordance and Prizing or Lessons from Huckleberry Finn and Thomas Jefferson

    • Peter A. French

    Pages 219-243

16. Back Matter

    Pages 245-252

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The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A. French on the nature of responsibility, ethics, and moral practices. French’s contributions to a wide spectrum of philosophical discussions have made him a dominant figure in the fields of normative ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics, as well as legal and political philosophy. Many of French’s deepest insights come from identifying and exploring the scope and nature of moral responsibility and human agency as they appear in actual events, real social and cultural practices, as well as in literature and film. This immediacy renders French’s scholarship vital and accessible to a wide variety of audiences. The authors, recognized for their own contributions to the understanding of the nature of morality and moral practices offer new and unique positions while exploring, expanding and responding to those of French. The final chapter is written by French, in which he provides both new philosophical insight as well as some reflection on his own work and its influence. This book will appeal to philosophers, as well as advanced students and researchers in the humanities, social sciences, law, and political science.

• Peter A. French
• a person-based theory of business ethics
• death and meaningfulness in life
• ethics of care
• moral and epistemic devlopment
• moral practices
• political philosophy
• responsibility and climate change
• responsibility and practices
• responsibility barter game
• responsibility for collective memories
• suberogatory actions
• the nature of morality
• the nature of responsibility
• theories of moral responsibility

“Reflections on Ethics and Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Peter A. French is a collection of essays written in the analytic tradition on moral agency and responsibility that address a variety of topics in ethics found in the work of ethicist Peter A. French. … I strongly recommend this collection of essays for academic libraries. The work of French and his commenters has substantive practical implications for a variety of fields in ethics … .” (William Simkulet, metapsychology.mentalhelp.net, Vol. 22 (26), June, 2018)

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

  Zachary J. Goldberg

Zachary J. Goldberg is currently Principal Investigator of the DFG Research Grant “Components of Evil: An Analysis of Secular Moral Evil and its Normative and Social Implications” in the Department of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. Prior to taking up this position he was Postdoctoral Researcher in Normative Ethics at the University of Regensburg. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Arizona State University, a M.A. in philosophy from Stony Brook University, and a B.A. summa cum laude in philosophy from Emory University. His research and publications focus on the metaethical status and normative significance of moral evil, individual and collective responsibility for acts of evil, the moral psychology of perpetrators of evil, and the moral and political basis of redress for historical injustices. 

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