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David O. Brink, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego David O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His research is in ethical theory, history of ethics, moral psychology, and jurisprudence. He is the author of Moral Realism and The Foundations of Ethics (CUP 1989), Perfectionism and the Common Good (OUP 2003), and Mill's Progressive Principles (OUP 2013). He received a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Minnesota (1980) and a PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University (1984). He served as Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University and as Assistant and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining UC San Diego in 1994. He gave the 2013 Lindley Lecture.
Brink's book is a triumph. It is valuable because it is the most complete and comprehensive articulation of responsibility and excuses, and because every chapter contains insights as to particular excuses themselves * Philosophical Review * I cannot help but marvel at Brink's accomplishment. I cannot think of another writer who has so systematically worked through so many moral and legal intricacies. It has a rightful place on the shelf of all theorists interested in responsibility and the criminal law * Philosophical Review * David Brink has been writing about responsibility for almost two decades. He has now written a splendid book, Fair Opportunity & Responsibility, that sums up and expands the themes that he has been so fruitfully pursuing. It is an excellent blend of theory and practical arguments for law reform. It is also stunningly polite, fair-minded and humane. ... Every criminal law scholar should read Fair Opportunity & Responsibility * Criminal Law and Philosophy * David Brink has done an extraordinary job identifying, defending, and applying what might be called a master principle of culpability [fair opportunity]. He has written a wonderful book, full of nuance and philosophical sophistication * Criminal Law and Philosophy *
