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An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.
Author : Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108498108
An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.
Author : Randolph Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199347522
Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.
Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Agency and R
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199694869
This book discusses questions such as: what does it mean to be an agent? what is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility? and what do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
Author : Andrei Buckareff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137414952
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines. The present volume brings together original contributions by leading specialists working in this vital field of philosophical inquiry. The contents represent the state of the art of philosophical research on intentional agency, free will, and moral responsibility. The volume begins with chapters on the metaphysics of agency and moves to chapters examining various problems of luck. The final two sections have a normative focus, with the first of the two containing chapters examining issues related to responsible agency and blame and the chapters in the final section examine responsibility and relationships. This book will be of interest to researchers and students interested in both metaphysical and normative issues related to human agency.
Author : Cornelia Ulbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351781863
At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly differentiated, multi-actor governance arrangements of the global economy and world society. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements assign responsibilities to order the world and negotiate who is responsible for what and how. The book asks how moral duties can be defined beyond the territorial and legal confines of the nation-state; and how obligations and accountability mechanisms for a post-national world, in which responsibility remains vague, ambiguous and contested, can be established. Using an empirical as well as a theoretical perspective, the book explores ontological framings of complexity emphasizing emergence and non-linearity, which challenge classic liberal notions of responsibility and moral agency based on the autonomous subject. Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility is perfect for scholars from International Relations, Politics, Philosophy and Political Economy with an interest in the topical and increasingly popular topics of moral agency and complexity.
Author : Jeanette Kennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199266301
Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement? Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between recklessness, weakness of willand compulsion collapse. This would threaten our ordinary notion of self-control and undermine our practice of holding each other responsible for moral failure. So a clear and plausible account of how weakness of will and self-control are possible is of great practical significance.Taking the problem of weakness of will as her starting point, Jeanette Kennett builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency which gives a central place to the capacity for self-control. Her account of the exercise and limits of self-control vindicates the common-sensedistinction between weakness of will and compulsion and so underwrites our ordinary allocations of moral responsibility. She addresses with clarity and insight a range of important topics in moral psychology, such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, andthe varieties of recklessness (here characterised as culpable bad judgement) - and does so in terms which make their relations to each other and to the challenges of real life obvious. Agency and Responsibility concludes by testing the accounts developed of self-control, moral failure, and moralresponsibility against the hard cases provided by acts of extreme evil.
Author : Toni Erskine
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2004-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333971291
Can institutions (in the sense of formal organizations) bear duties and be ascribed blame in the same way that we understand individual human beings to be morally responsible for actions? The idea of the "institutional moral agent" is critically examined in the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN, NATO and international society in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the Kosovo Campaign, development aid, and genocide in Rwanda.
Author : Barry Barnes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761963684
In this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. It has borrowed notions of 'agency' and 'choice' from everyday discourse, but increasingly it puts a misconceived individualistic gloss upon them. Against this, Barnes unequivocally identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability. Notions of 'agency', 'freedom' and 'choice' have to be understood by reference to their role in communicative interaction; they are key components of the discourse through which human beings identify each other, and have effects upon each other, as soci
Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199694850
This book discusses questions such as: what does it mean to be an agent? what is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility? and what do various psychological disorders tell us about agency and responsibility?
Author : Andrei Buckareff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137414952
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines. The present volume brings together original contributions by leading specialists working in this vital field of philosophical inquiry. The contents represent the state of the art of philosophical research on intentional agency, free will, and moral responsibility. The volume begins with chapters on the metaphysics of agency and moves to chapters examining various problems of luck. The final two sections have a normative focus, with the first of the two containing chapters examining issues related to responsible agency and blame and the chapters in the final section examine responsibility and relationships. This book will be of interest to researchers and students interested in both metaphysical and normative issues related to human agency.