Responsibility and Criminal Liability
Sistare, C. T.![Responsibility and Criminal Liability](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/154/15470198/CHSBZCOP0315470198.jpg)
autonomy principally in tenns of the agent's conscious choice of ends or conduct. From this, the cognitivist emphasis on mental states and their contents naturally follows. The presence of specified mental states, as signifying agent choice, thus becomes the hallmark of responsible conduct. Capacities model theorists, by contrast, interpret personal autonomy and agent responsibility in tenns of the looser notion of 'control'. From this perspec...