Act and crime: the philosophy of action and its implications for criminal law

What implications are there for the criminal law from the philosophy of action? Providing a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies it, Moore develops a coherent theory of action in philosophy and assesses its effects on criminal law. INDICE: Preface to the Paperback Edition; 1: Introduction: Criminal Law's Three Conduct Requirements; Part I: Basic Acts and the Act Requirement; 2: The Doctrinal Unity of the Act Requirement; 3: The Orthodox View of the Act Requirement and Its Normative Defence; 4: The Metaphysics of Basic Acts I: The Existence of Actions; 5: The Metaphysics of Basic Acts II: The Identity of Actions with Bodily Movements; 6: The Metaphysics of Basic Acts III: Volitions as the Essential Source of Actions; Part II: Complex Action Descriptions and the Actus Reus Requirement; 7: The Doctrinal Basis of the Actus Reus Requirement; 8: Unity in Complex Action Description and in the Actus Reus Requirement; 9: The Normative Basis for the Actus Reus Requirement; 10: The Metaphysics of Complex Actions I: The Dependence of Complex Actions on Basic Acts; 11: The Metaphysics of Complex Actions II: The Identity of Complex Actions with Basic Acts; Part III: The Identity Conditions of Actions and the Double Jeopardy Requirement; 12: The Doctrinal and Normative Basis of the Double Jeopardy Requirement; 13: Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Action-Types; 14: Legal, Moral, and Metaphysical Notions of the 'Sameness' of Act-Tokens

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959950-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés