Professor David Robertson reviews Michael S. Moore’s Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics.

Professor Robertson describes the book as “an abstruse, ambitious, and intermittently quite difficult presentation of Moore’s intuitions about the nature of causation and the implications of those intuitions for tort law, criminal law, and moral philosophy.” While he finds the book intellectually stimulating and enjoyable, he argues that it falls short of teaching, implementing, manipulating, and critiquing the law in actual operation.