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Building Better Beings
Author | : Manuel Vargas |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191043666 |
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Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and moral responsibility. He goes on to show how we can nevertheless justify our responsibility practices and provide a normatively and naturalistically adequate account of of responsible agency, blame, and desert. Three ideas are central to Vargas' account: the agency cultivation model, circumstantialism about powers, and revisionism about responsibility and free will. On Vargas' account, responsibility norms and practices are justified by their effects. In particular, the agency cultivation model holds that responsibility practices help mold us into creatures that respond to moral considerations. Moreover, the abilities that matter for responsibility and free will are not metaphysically prior features of agents in isolation from social contexts. Instead, they are functions of both agents and their normatively structured contexts. This is the idea of circumstantialism about the powers required for responsibility. Third, Vargas argues that an adequate theory of responsibility will be revisionist, or at odds with important strands of ordinary convictions about free will and moral responsibility. Building Better Beings provides a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and moral responsibility.
Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility
Author | : Katrina Hutchison,Catriona Mackenzie,Marina Oshana |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190874063 |
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To what extent are we responsible for our actions? Philosophical theorizing about this question has recently taken a social turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional metaphysical concerns about free will and determinism. Recent theories have attended to the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of moral responsibility practices and the role of the moral environment in scaffolding agency. Yet, the implications of social inequality and the role of social power for our moral responsibility practices remains a surprisingly neglected topic. The conception of agency involved in current approaches to moral responsibility is overly idealized, assuming that our practices involve interactions between equally empowered and situated agents. In twelve new essays and a substantial introduction, this volume systematically challenges this assumption, exploring the impact of social factors such as power relationships and hierarchies, paternalism, socially constructed identities, race, gender and class on moral responsibility. Social factors have bearing on the circumstances in which agents act as well as on the person or people in the position to hold that agent accountable for his or her action. Additionally, social factors bear on the parties who pass judgment on the agent. Leading theorists of moral responsibility, including Michael McKenna, Marina Oshana, and Manuel Vargas, consider the implications of oppression and structural inequality for their respective theories. Neil Levy urges the need to refocus our analyses of the epistemic and control conditions for moral responsibility from individual to socially extended agents. Leading theorists of relational autonomy, including Catriona Mackenzie, Natalie Stoljar and Andrea Westlund develop new insights into the topic of moral responsibility. Other contributors bring debates about moral responsibility into dialogue with recent work in feminist philosophy, social epistemology and social psychology on topics such as epistemic injustice and implicit bias. Collectively, the essays in this volume reorient philosophical debates about moral responsibility in important new directions.
Build Better Products
Author | : Laura Klein |
Publsiher | : Rosenfeld Media |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781933820453 |
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It’s easier than ever to build a new product. But developing a great product that people actually want to buy and use is another story. Build Better Products is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that helps teams incorporate strategy, empathy, design, and analytics into their development process. You’ll learn to develop products and features that improve your business’s bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience.
Free Will Causality and the Self
Author | : Atle Ottesen Søvik |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783110474466 |
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A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally up to us as agents to determine that the future should be either A or B. This book presents a theory of free will which integrates the main motivations of compatibilists and libertarians, while at the same time avoiding their problems. The so-called event-causal libertarianism is the libertarian account closest to compatibilitsm, as it claims there is indeterminism in the mind of an agent. The charge of compatibilists, however, is that this position is impaired by the problem of luck. This book is unique in arguing that free will in a strong sense of the term does not require indeterminism in the brain, only indeterminism somewhere in the world which there plausibly is.
Four Views on Free Will
Author | : John Martin Fischer,Robert Kane,Derk Pereboom,Manuel Vargas |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781405182041 |
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Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries
Building Better Schools with Evidence based Policy
Author | : Kelly-Ann Allen,Andrea Reupert,Lindsay Oades |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781000363098 |
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Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools. The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily accessible, and each policy is built on theory, driven by research, and created by experts. Each policy is based on substantial evidence, and this is ensured through the inclusion of contributors who are active and highly reputable in their respective field. Most schools are obliged to write and maintain policy, and not all school leaders have the required skills, time, or expertise to do this effectively. Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders is a time-saving resource for schools. It aims to address the reported research-to-practice gap in education by delivering accessible evidence-based practice in a ready-to-use adaptable format. All policies within this book are designed to be adapted and tailored to the unique diversity and needs of each school as reflected by the context and the people that make up the school community. This book is relevant to every person who works in a school – worldwide. Users of this book can rest assured that each policy has been carefully formulated from the current understandings of best practice. This is a practical innovation and an example of how schools can use research evidence in their day-to-day practices. "The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license."
Building Better Caregivers
Author | : Kate, Lorig Dr.P.H.,Diana Laurent, M.P.H.,Robert Schreiber, MD,Maureen Gecht-Silver, OTD. MPH, OTR/L,Dolores Gallagher Thompson, PhD, ABPP,Marian Minor, RPT, PhD,Virginia González, M.P.H.,David Sobel, MD, MPH,Danbi Lee PhD, OTD, OTR/L |
Publsiher | : Bull Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-06-20 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781945188206 |
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Today more than 40 million people in the U.S. find themselves responsible for caring for a parent, relative, or friend. Building Better Caregivers, developed by the author team of the bestselling Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions, shares the best in caregiving research and the most important lessons learned from thousands of caregivers. With a focus on reducing stress through the use of practical skills and tools, this book will help you manage your caregiving tasks so you can maintain a happy, fulfilling life while also meeting your caregiving obligations.
The Gritty Little Lamb
Author | : Dan Allbaugh |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Determination (Personality trait) |
ISBN | : 1735770817 |
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In this book with rhyming text, a lamb's parents educate him about the value of practice, perseverance, and attitude to achieve his goal which, for right now, is beating dad at a game.