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Agency and Responsibility
Author | : Jeanette Kennett |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199266302 |
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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.
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 1
Author | : David Shoemaker,Neal A. Tognazzini |
Publsiher | : Oxford Studies in Agency and R |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199694860 |
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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?
Agency Negligence and Responsibility
Author | : Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco,George Pavlakos |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781108498104 |
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An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.
Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility
Author | : Cornelia Ulbert,Peter Finkenbusch,Elena Sondermann,Tobias Debiel |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2017-11-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781351781862 |
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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.
Agency Freedom and Moral Responsibility
Author | : Andrei Buckareff,Carlos Moya,Sergi Rosell |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781137414953 |
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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.
Omissions
Author | : Randolph Clarke,Randolph K. Clarke |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199347520 |
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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.
Agency Moral Identity and Free Will
Author | : David Weissman |
Publsiher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781783748785 |
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There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don’t control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do? Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will proposes that deliberation, choice, and free will emerged within the evolutionary history of animals with a physical advantage: organisms having cell walls or exoskeletons had an internal space within which to protect themselves from external threats or encounters. This defense was both structural and active: such organisms could ignore intrusions or inhibit risky behavior. Their capacities evolved with time: inhibition became the power to deliberate and choose the manner of one’s responses. Hence the ability of humans and some other animals to determine their reactions to problematic situations or to information that alters values and choices. This is free will as a material power, not as the conclusion to a conceptual argument. Having it makes us morally responsible for much we do. It prefigures moral identity. Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our sense of moral choice and freedom is accurate. We are not altogether the creatures of our circumstances.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency
Author | : Luca Ferrero |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2022-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780429510762 |
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One of the most basic and important distinctions we draw is between those entities with the capacity of agency and those without. As humans we enjoy agency in its full-blooded form and therefore a proper understanding of the nature of agency is of great importance to appreciate who we are and what we should expect and demand of our existence. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency is an outstanding reference source to the key issues, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising 42 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into eight clear parts: The Metaphysics of Agency Kinds of Agency Agency and Ability Agency: Mind, Body, and World Agency and Knowledge Agency and Moral Psychology Agency and Time Agency, Reasoning, and Normativity. A broad range of topics are covered, including the relation of agency to causation, teleology, animal agency, intentionality, planning, skills, disability, practical knowledge, self-knowledge, the will, responsibility, autonomy, identification, emotions, personal identity, reasons, morality, the law, aesthetics, and games. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency is essential reading for students and researchers within philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of psychology, and ethics.