A Philosophy of Criminal Attempts
- New York Cambridge University Press 2015
- 238p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. The Anatomy Of Attempting ......7 Attempts and Intention ......9 Understandings of Intention .....10 International action as the sole category of Intention .............26 Intention and attempts .......34 2. Attempts and action ..............38 Attempting as species of International Action ...........39 Action in Attempts..............59 3. Attempts and Subjectivity ..66 Agent relative subjectivity .............68 Thiird-Party subjectivity ..........78 4. Attempts and possibility ..............87 The distinction between what is attempted and what happens in an Attempt ..........88 The need for descriptive accuracy : Implications for Impossibility ..........98 II. The Implications for criminal Law .......105 5. Acts are not physical Movements: Implications for the Mens reactus re..............117 Actus reus and Mens rea: When is Criminal Blame warranted .......123 6. Impossibility and extraordinariness in Ciminal Attempts .............134 7. Criminal Attempts and moral luck ............154 8. Reckless attempts?...........176 Inchoalte theft and inchoate rape .............194