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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"blameworthiness"”.
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… known as “volitionism,” responsibility or blameworthiness for wrongdoing requires that the act, or some act in its causal history, was done in full awareness of its wrongfulness. Since such a view makes blameworthiness hard to come by, volitionists have argued that rarely, if ever, are we …
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
… that we should understand praiseworthiness and blameworthiness by appeal to the concept of virtue, even granting the possibility of uncharacteristic behaviour. Chapter One argues against the popular view of praiseworthiness, according to which acting well requires only that the agent is moved by …
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The Criminalisation of Adverse Medical Events in Criminal Negligence Cases: Exploring Fate, Agency, and Pragmatism in the Construction of Blame for Alleged Physician Negligence
… uses an interpretivist approach to examine how blameworthiness is constructed in criminal cases involving AME. Situated within a contextual constructionist paradigm, and utilizing a theoretical framework that draws on legal pragmatism, symbolic interactionism, Habermasian thought, and Goffmanian …
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Legal financial obligations: a focal concerns perspective
… used by court actors in criminal sentencing: blameworthiness of the offender, protection of community, and practical constraints and consequences. Adjusting to these practical constraints causes court actors to employ "perceptual shorthand", utilizing defendant's characteristics in sentencing …
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The Effects of Intent and Consequences on the Assignment of Penalties Related to HIV Non-Disclosure Situations
… ANOVA design, with assigned responsibility and blameworthiness as the dependent variables. The results demonstrated that intent and consequences played independent roles in affecting recommended penalties related to HIV non-disclosure situations. No significant differences were found for …
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Complicity
… demonstrate that complicity does not entail blameworthiness, but that even non-culpable complicity will generate moral obligations and reasons for action, and will make various moral responses and expectations appropriate (e.g. shame, regret, mistrust, criticism, mutual education, reparative …
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The power of the court to grant alternative accommodation orders: an investigation into when an alternative accommodation order as a condition to the eviction of unlawful occupiers in terms of PIE would comply with the court's constitutional mandate
… against an alternative accommodation order: blameworthiness on the part of the unlawful occupiers, a lack of blameworthiness on the part of the state, a finding that the state's limited resources should rather be spent on others who are needier or more deserving. In the conclusion of the …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
… extent and degree to which he emphasized their blameworthiness. Chapters three and four examine Philo's Stoicizing treatment of the tripartite and bipartite Platonic elements in his psychology, including Plato’s chariot metaphor and variants. In each of these areas, Philo’s key deviations are …
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The Need for Limiting Mechanisms on Not Criminally Responsible Dispositions
… from criminal liability, as they have no moral blameworthiness for their action leading to the criminal charge. However, persons found NCR are not acquitted. They are transferred to the jurisdiction of a provincial review board, where they remain under supervision and conditions unless or until …
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Rational Capacities and the Practice of Blame: A Skeptical Argument
… it is impossible to satisfy the conditions of blameworthiness. The argument that reaches this conclusion is what I call an internal criticism. Unlike other skeptical arguments about moral responsibility, the one advanced in this thesis does not depend on any metaphysical theses external to the …
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Implementing the UNDRIP into the Province of British Columbia: The Impact of BC’s Declaration Act on Buck-Passing and Injustices of Misframing
… level of government in attempt to escape moral blameworthiness as well as the responsibility for rectifying an injustice. For its part, misframing is a problem that involves misconstruing the nature of an injustice so as to block or obscure possible political actors, arenas, or processes that …
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
… a certain offence which is at odds with the blameworthiness they actually deserve is a site of certain kind of injustice - an ontic injustice. This ontic injustice creates a mismatch between the offender’s entitlements (as per critical morality) and the legal categories and duties imposed on …
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The Establishment of Blame As A Framework for Sensemaking in the Space Policy Subsystem: A Study of the Apollo 1 and Challenger Accidents
This study investigates how the establishment of blame becomes a framework for sensemaking in a national policy subsystem. Using the only two fatal accidents in NASA's manned space flight history as case studies, this dissertation examines how the space policy subsystem responded to these two …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
… in its application, different degrees of moral blameworthiness, then it would be as well to be upfront about them: the court’s “commiseration [should be] actually codified in the law’. The thesis therefore recommends a series of statutory amendments to the law of culpable homicide, including the …
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles
… views of role-occupants’ reasons for action, blameworthiness, and responsibility for structural injustice. In Chapter One, I develop a new account of how social roles generate normative reasons for occupants to comply with role norms. I argue that agents’ reasons to comply with their role …
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Critical assessment on the strategies of enhancing good governance in Local Government: a case of Thulamela Local Municipality
… officials; this has to do with answerability and blameworthiness.
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What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good?
… And we are generally reluctant to attribute blameworthiness in cases in which circumstances prevent an agent's character from being reflected in his actions – we typically excuse agents whose bad actions result from delusions or uncontrollable impulses, for example.</p> <p> Here, finally, is …