Responsibility

Oxford studies in agency and responsibility

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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent? What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the…

Oxford studies in agency and responsibility

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No one has written more insightfully on the promises and perils of human agency than Gary Watson, who has spent a career thinking about issues such as moral responsibility, blame, free will, addiction, and psychopathy. This text pays tribute to Watson's work by taking up and ext…

Oxford studies in agency and responsibility

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"'Oxford studies in agency and responsibility' is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: what does it mean to be an agent?; what is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is…

Taking responsibility: self-reliance and the accountable life

by Branden, Nathaniel

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"In Taking Responsibility Branden delineates four goals: to illuminate the meaning and implications of self-responsibility as a way of living and of being in the world; to show that this practice is not an onerous burden but a source of joy and personal power; to establish that …

Between daily routine and violent protest: interpreting the technicity of action

by Wolff, Ernst

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Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other element…

The Routledge companion to trust

fromRoutledge companions in business, management and accounting

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In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media. Perennially linked to turbulence and scandals, the damaging and rebuilding of trust is a contemporary concern affecting all areas of society…

Moral responsibility and risk in society: examples from emerging technologies, public healt…

by Nihlén Fahlquist, Jessica

fromEarthscan risk in society series

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Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to s…

Determinism, freedom and moral responsibility: essays in ancient philosophy

by Bobzien, Susanne

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"This volume assembles nine of the author's essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in Western antiquity, ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to the 3rd century. It is representative of the author's overall scholarship on the topic, much of which is …

Determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility: essays in ancient philosophy

by Bobzien, Susanne

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This volume assembles nine of the author's essays on determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility in Western antiquity, ranging from Aristotle via the Epicureans and Stoics to the third century. It is representative of the author's overall scholarship on the topic, much of whi…

Being guilty: freedom, responsibility, and conscience in German…

by Elgat, Guy

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"What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? Being Guilty seeks to answer this question through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibili…