The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these issues. Comprised of forty-one chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into three clear parts – on the history, the theory, and the practice of responsibility – within which the following key topics are examined: responsibility and wrongdoing responsibility and determinism the scope of responsibility the responsibility of individuals within society the concepts of responsibility the conditions and challenges of responsibility the practices of being and holding responsible the ethics and politics of responsibility responsibility in the law Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility provides an extremely useful guide to the topic. It will be valuable reading for students and researchers in philosophy and applied ethics, as well as for those in related fields such as politics, law, and policymaking.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Maximilian Kiener Part 1: The History of Responsibility Section 1: Responsibility and Wrongdoing 1. Plato on Vice Marcel van Ackeren 2. Hegel on Guilt Mark Alznauer Section 2: Responsibility and Determinism 3. The Stoics: What Kind of Responsibility is Compatible with Divine Providence? Rachana Kamtekar 4. Hobbes Against Bramhall: Moral Responsibility, Free Will, and Mechanistic Determination Thomas Pink 5. Hume on Free Will and Moral Responsibility Peter Millican 6. Sidgwick on Free Will and Ethics Anthony Skelton Section 3: The Scope of Responsibility 7. Aristotle on Legal and Moral Responsibility: Interpretation and Reform Terence Irwin 8. Kant on Absolute Responsibility and Transcendental Freedom David Sussman Section 4: Individuals and Society 9. Responsibility in Confucian Thought David Wong 10. Aquinas on Holding Others to Blame Jeffrey Hause Part 2: The Theory of Responsibility Section 5: The Concepts of Responsibility 11. Responsibility and Agency Maria Alvarez 12. Responsibility and Causation Alex Kaiserman 13. Responsibility and The Deep Self Monika Betzler 14. Responsibility and Emotion Andreas Carlsson 15. Varieties of Answerability Maximilian Kiener Section 6: The Conditions and Challenges of Responsibility 16. The Consequences of Incompatibilism Patrick Todd 17. Free Will and The Case for Compatibilism Carolina Sartorio 18. Deliberation and the Possibility of Skepticism Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette 19. Responsibility and Manipulation Massimo Renzo 20. Responsibility and Coercion Carla Bagnoli 21. Ignorance and the Epistemic Condition Daniel Miller 22. Moral Competence and Mental Disorder Lubomira Radoilska 23. Excuse, Capacity and Convention David Owens Part 3: The Practice of Responsibility Section 7: Being and Holding Responsible 24. Blaming Leonhard Menges 25. Communicating Praise Daniel Telech 26. The Standing to Blame Matt King 27. Apology and Forgiveness Andrea Westlund 28. Taking Responsibility Elinor Mason 29. Responsibility Without Blame Bruce Waller 30. Holding Responsible in the African Tradition: Reconciliation Applied to Punishment, Compensation, and Trials Thaddeus Metz Section 8: The Ethics and Politics of Responsibility 31. Artificial Intelligence and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care Shannon Vallor and Bhargavi Ganesh 32. Moral Responsibility for Historical Injustice Michael Schefczyk 33. Corporate Digital Responsibility Alexander Filipović 34. Reckless Complicity: International Banks and Future Climate Henry Shue 35. Responsibility and Gender Paula Casal Section 9: Responsibility in the Law 36. Legal and Moral Responsibility Peter Cane 37. The Voluntary Act Requirement in Criminal Law John Hyman 38. Strict Liability and Strict Responsibility Antony Duff 39. Responsibility and Pre-Trial Detention Kim Ferzan 40. Responsibility for Others Jenny Steele 41. Legitimate Divergence Between Moral and Criminal Blame Alexander Sarch. Index