caa a22 4500 388110163 CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500002430 doi S0265052500002430 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500002430 Stocker Michael Philosophy, Syracuse University Responsibility and the Abuse Excuse [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Stocker] Does a woman's being repeatedly battered by her husband excuse her killing him while he was asleep? This and similar questions are often dealt with by asking a more general question, "Should we accept abuse excuses?” These questions engender a lot of heat, but little light, in the media and other public forums, and even in the writings of many theorists. They have been discussed as if there is a typical abuse excuse we can examine in order to examine abuse excuses in general. Similarly, the question of whether we should accept abuse excuses has often been discussed as if it is simple and straightforward. But there is no one typical abuse excuse, and the question of whether to accept such excuses is neither simple nor straightforward. There are many different abuse excuses, many different circumstances in which they are deployed, and many different sorts of concerns motivating their use. In this, abuse excuses are just like other, well-accepted excuses, such as self-defense. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1999 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999), 175-200 0265-0525 16:2<175 1999 16 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stocker Michael Philosophy, Syracuse University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999), 175-200 0265-0525 16:2<175 1999 16 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge