The norms that mediate our responses to accidents play a critical role in facilitating social cooperation. My dissertation explores these norms with an eye towards what they can tell us about the nature of moral responsibility. Drawing on Adam Smith's brief, but important discussion of moral luck, I argue that our responses to accidents reveal the extent to which the obligations we incur and the moral appraisals we make of one another are often appropriately influenced by fortune. In particular, I show how making sense of these responses requires us to embrace the idea that we can sometimes be morally responsible for things without being culpable, and I argue that doing so need not do violence to our moral intuitions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by Philip E. Mirowski for the Department of Economics. "April 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 452-485).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Amsterdam, 1903.

Th.--Hist.--Helsinki, 1963. / Bibliogr. pp. 175-179. Index.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Zürich. / Bibliography: p. 107-109.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1925. / Vita. Published also as Studies in history, economics and public law, vol. CXVII, no. 2; whole no. 261. Bibliography: p. 150-152.

Inaug.-Diss.--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg i. Br. / Bibliography: p. 172-182.

Zugl.: Poznañ, Uniw. Imienia Adama Mickiewicza, Diss., 2006

Theis--Basel. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99).

Thesis--University of Texas. / Vita. Part 2 (leaves 247-393) contains the author's transcription of Rener's motets into modern notation in score. Includes bibliography.