Philosophical foundations of tort law /
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Clarendon,
1997
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Why Philosophy Matters to Tort Law / David G. Owen -- 1. The Concept of a Civil Wrong / Peter Birks -- 2. The Practice of Corrective Justice / Jules L. Coleman -- 3. The Morality of Tort Law -- Questions and Answers / Tony Honore -- 4. Wealth Maximization and Tort Law: A Philosophical Inquiry / Richard A. Posner -- 5. The Uneasy Place of Principle in Tort Law / George C. Christie -- 6. Tort Law in the Aristotelian Tradition / James Gordley -- 7. Right, Justice and Tort Law / Richard W. Wright -- 8. The Idea of Complementarity as a Philosophical Basis for Pluralism in Tort Law / Izhak Englard -- 9. Philosophical Foundations of Fault in Tort Law / David G. Owen -- 10. Intention in Tort Law / John Finnis -- 11. The Standards of Care in Negligence Law / Richard W. Wright -- 12. The Seriousness of Harm Thesis for Abnormally Dangerous Activities / Ken Kress.
- 13. Aggregate Autonomy, the Difference Principle, and the Calabresian Approach to Products Liability / John B. Attanasio -- 14. Risk, Harm, and Responsibility / Stephen R. Perry -- 15. Causation, Compensation and Moral Responsibility / Christopher H. Schroeder -- 16. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions in Tort Law / Tony Honore -- 17. Moments of Carelessness and Massive Loss / Jeremy Waldron -- 18. Wrongdoing, Welfare, and Damages: Recovery for Non-Pecuniary Loss in Corrective Justice / Bruce Chapman -- 19. The Basis for Excluding Liability for Economic Loss in Tort Law / Peter Benson -- 20. Contributory Negligence: Conceptual and Normative Issues / Kenneth W. Simons -- Afterword: What Has Philosophy to Learn From Tort Law? / Bernard Williams.