課程資訊
課程名稱
法律中的因果關係
Causality in Law 
開課學期
105-1 
授課對象
法律學院  法律研究所  
授課教師
葛祥林 
課號
LAW5142 
課程識別碼
A21EU4520 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
 
上課地點
 
備註
本課程以英語授課。12/19.21.23&12/26.28.30(17:30-20:10)@1501
總人數上限:30人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1051LAW5142_ 
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課程概述

The connection between causality and responsibility proposed by Michael Moore in his 2009/2010 publication has had a vivid echo among scholars of legal theory. Notably members of the Anglo-American academia reacted with discussing related aspects. The course first introduces different notions of causation/causality and responsibility, explaining the concept of enlightenment (responsibility as the moral obligation of a reasonable person) and its connection with 19th century natural science (causation as a mono-linear reason for an exactly determinable change) and more modern forms of reformulating these principles. After clearing these assumptions, the course proceeds to explain the inter-relatedness of these notions, as discussed by various authors (Alexander, Bratman, Brink, Gardner, Moore, Sartorio, Schaffer, Yaffe) in ‘Legal Theory’. As a third step, we will discuss insufficiencies of current theories, becoming obvious when scrutinizing multi-causal settings on a single level of causation and on different causation levels, probability calculations as reason for legal interventions, responsibility without causation, and causation without responsibility etc. These discussions will show how the concept of causation/causality and responsibility is in need of further theoretical development. 

課程目標
雖然台灣所處的社會(即教育)環境與歐美有別,但仍應思考,歐美法律思想之動態。除非與歐美同步思考相似問題,否則永遠走在他人之後。因此,期待同學們不僅可反思近幾年理論爭議之一,更加期待可以對該爭議提出自己的初步觀點。除非能批判之,否則難以發展自己的觀點。 
課程要求
學生應由自行所準備之兩份文獻中挑其一,並準備於課堂上與同學們分享該文章之重點以及自己對作者見解提出贊成與批判之觀點。
未報告之另一篇文章,至少要(書面)提出優缺點各一個。 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 備註: 因授課授師學期中部分時間不在台灣,故請個別約談(可網上預約) 
指定閱讀
所列參考書目,當然屬於閱讀範圍。
然,參與本課程之同學,應自行挑選二份文章 
參考書目
Alexander, Larry, Yaffe on Attempts, Legal Theory (19) 2013, 124-135.
Bratman, Michael E., Yaffe on Criminal Attempts, Legal Theory (19) 2013, 101-113.
Brink, David O., First Acts, Last Acts, and Abandonment, Legal Theory (19) 2013, 114-123.
Gardner, John, Wrongdoing by Results: Moore’s Experiential Argument, Legal Theory (18) 2012, 459-471.
Moore, Michael, Causation and Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2009/2010.
Moore, Michael, Four Friendly Critics, Legal Theory (18) 2012, 491-542.
Moore, Michael, Yaffe’s Attempts, Legal Theory (19) 2013, 136-177.
Sartorio, Carolina, Two Wrongs do not Make a Right, Legal Theory (18) 2012, 473-490.
Schaffer, Jonathan, Disconnection and Responsibility, Legal Theory (19) 2013, 399-435.
Yaffe, Gideon, Moore on Causing, Acting, and Complicity, Legal Theory (18) 2012, 437-458. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
課程參與 
33% 
 
2. 
課堂報告 
33% 
口頭及簡報檔 
3. 
學期報告 
33.3% 
書面 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1-1週
12/19  課程需知
Moore對因果關係與責任之基本主張
Yaffe, Moore on Causing, Acting, and Complicity 
第1-2週
12/21  Gardner, Wrongdoing by Results: Moore’s Experiential Argument
Sartorio, Two Wrongs do not Make a Right 
第1-3週
12/23  Yaffe, Moore on Causing, Acting, and Complicity
Moore, Four Friendly Critics 
第2-1週
12/26  Bratman, Yaffe on Criminal Attempts
Brink, First Acts, Last Acts, and Abandonment 
第2-2週
12/28  Alexander, Yaffe on Attempts
Moore, Yaffe’s Attempts 
第2-3週
12/30  Schaffer, Disconnection and Responsibility
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