Responsibility

Abstract

?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law. That they should stand at some distance is inevitable and no bad thing, but to keep them too far apart for too long has, among other bad effects, the rather paradoxical one of making both parties conservative: the philosophy tends to restrict its raw material to the offerings of a Tairly liberal common-sense, while the thought about penal and similar issues lacks the benefit of a sharp philosophical critique.