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Moral Responsibility in Medicine
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Moral responsibility for character
… a gap in virtue ethics. I present an account of moral responsibility that is consistent with the core assumption of virtue ethics, that character and not action is the primary locus of ethical appraisal. Virtue ethics typically does not include a notion of moral responsibility. The reason for …
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BEYOND DESERT AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: RETHINKING JUSTICE
… di libero arbitrio, merito e responsabilità morale individuale, a partire dalle analisi condotte dai filosofi del Seicento. Accertata l’inadeguatezza morale della concezione retributiva di giustizia, si indagherà, infine, la possibilità di sostituire il paradigma retributivo con un sistema …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
… artificial legal persons allows them to be held morally responsible as unitary entities and members of the moral community, or if their status requires ascription of moral responsibility to reduce to their individual participants. I argue that moral responsibility is ascribable to corporations …
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… is epistemically required for an agent to be morally responsible for an action (viz., the “epistemic condition” for moral responsibility). According to a prominent account known as “volitionism,” responsibility or blameworthiness for wrongdoing requires that the act, or some act in its causal …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… Many Americans felt the United States had a moral responsibility to help Near Eastern Christians. For many observers, American interest coupled with the opportunity for increased participation in Near Eastern affairs made it seem likely that the United States would emerge from the peace …
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Choice, ownership and responsibility
… is to answer these two questions: "Does moral responsibility require choice?" and "If not, what does it require?" Classic accounts of moral responsibility, such as libertarian accounts, assume a volition condition - we are not morally responsible for a behavior unless we have directly or …
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Moral Luck
<p>The problem of moral luck arises because of an apparent conflict between the luck that humans face, the pervasiveness of moral considerations in our lives, and the idea that moral responsibility requires a level of control that luck robs them of. The claim is that we cannot be governed by luck …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
… characterizations of implicit bias, our moral responsibility for it, and how these accounts translate into applications in real-world settings. At the center of my work is the view that philosophical theorizing regarding implicit bias should be informed by careful attention to the nuances …
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Reasons, Agency, and Responsibility: A Defence of Soft Compatibilism
… facts or events is compatible with retrospective moral responsibility, provided that retrospective moral responsibility does not require the ultimacy condition. I argue that it does not. Both determinism and indeterminism allow agents to be retrospectively responsible for their choices and actions …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… More specifically, I consider guilt and moral responsibility, using archival research to trace the unusual lineage of writing on moral responsibility that has lain unexamined in their work, and to undo scholarly misconceptions concerning their ethical and political theory. More broadly, …
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Responsibility for Self: Agency and the Attitudes
… thesis defends the claim that the core idea of moral responsibility is fixed by our best theory of agency. Such a theory concerns the proper conditions of attribution of an attitude or an action to an agent for the purposes of moral appraisal – or what I call the rational relations view. The …
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
… productions since the days of the miracle and morality plays. The main distinction between early and late Elizabethan drama seems to be that in the latter, a sense of moral responsibility is often lacking. Lack of moral responsibility, coupled with sensational treatment, is characteristic of …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
… explores the assessment of its consequences in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on recent research in cognitive psychology. The central …
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Cleansing Our Recycling Failures: How Guilt and Outrage Lead to Different Types of Pro-Environmental Behavior
… behavioral changes? According to research on moral self-regulation, failing to act morally can threaten a person’s moral self-concept, eliciting moral emotions (i.e., guilt and outrage), and motivating compensatory behavior (such as increased recycling). Three studies examined whether watching …
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Free will and logic
… whether or not Determinism is inconsistent with moral responsibility - can be settled only by a logical or conceptual enquiry. A contrary view - that we can settle the dispute by appeal to introspection - is examined and refuted. The question 'Are our wills contra-causally free?' is shown to have …
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Free will and logic
… whether or not Determinism is inconsistent with moral responsibility - can be settled only by a logical or conceptual enquiry. A contrary view - that we can settle the dispute by appeal to introspection - is examined and refuted. The question 'Are our wills contra-causally free?' is shown to have …
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BEYOND BANALITY: REASSESSING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARENDT'S 'BANALITY OF EVIL'
… nature in shaping our understanding of moral responsibility in the context of mass atrocities. While Arendt's notion has significantly impacted discussions on moral responsibility and the nature of evil, this paper seeks to re-evaluate its philosophical foundations, arguing that a more …
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The Inspiration to Activism: Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut as Hopeful Critics of Humanity
… theories regarding human nature, free will, and moral responsibility, Chapter One, "The Literary Presentation of a Social Philosophy" discusses textual evidence which leads the reader to understand what both Twain and Vonnegut thought about the possibility of free will and moral responsibility. …
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