Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath
The Value of Others

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

Jim Baxter (Author)

9781316516867, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 September 2021

230 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

Are psychopaths morally responsible? Should we argue with them? Remonstrate with them, blame them, sometimes even praise them? Is it worth trying to change them, or should we just try to prevent them from causing harm? In this book, Jim Baxter aims to find serious answers to these deep philosophical questions, drawing on contemporary insights from psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience and law. Moral Responsibility and the Psychopath is the first sustained, book-length philosophical work on this important and fascinating topic, and will be of deep interest and importance to researchers in these fields – not to mention anyone who has had to interact with a psychopath in their everyday life.

Introduction
1. Moral Responsibility
2. Psychopathy
3. Psychopathy and Moral Responsibility
4. Emotions and Value
5. Empathy and Moral Development
6 Psychopathy in the Criminal Law
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy of mind [HPM], Philosophy: logic [HPL]