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Five Ways Patricia Can Kill Her Husband
Leo Zaibert
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Description for Five Ways Patricia Can Kill Her Husband
Paperback / so. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
The titular example of Patricia, a woman who kills her husband, illustrates this book’s powerful theory of culpability. Depending on Patricia’s mental state and beliefs, her degree of guilt for killing her husband will vary. If, for example, she set fire to her apartment fully intending to kill her husband, we would deem her more blameworthy that if the fire was an unavoidable accident. Culpability, the author argues, is commonly confused with other issues such as responsibility, accountability, and liability. Yet it is concerned exclusively with the intentional mental states we have at the time that we act. Zaibert also ... Read more
The titular example of Patricia, a woman who kills her husband, illustrates this book’s powerful theory of culpability. Depending on Patricia’s mental state and beliefs, her degree of guilt for killing her husband will vary. If, for example, she set fire to her apartment fully intending to kill her husband, we would deem her more blameworthy that if the fire was an unavoidable accident. Culpability, the author argues, is commonly confused with other issues such as responsibility, accountability, and liability. Yet it is concerned exclusively with the intentional mental states we have at the time that we act. Zaibert also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cricket Books, a division of Carus Publishing Co United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780812695762
SKU
V9780812695762
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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