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Flavors of Responsibility
… of the other proposed conceptions of responsibility: that of attributability and that of accountability. I will come up with three connected definitions corresponding to these notions, and show that once we refine our concept of responsibility, it is possible for an agent to be …
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Individuals' responsibility in corporations
Kongon demokraattinen tasavalta on köyhä maa, jossa kaivosteollisuuden tuottamat rahat päätyvät usein ruokkimaan vuosia kestänyttä veristä konfliktia. Onko ylikansallisilla elektroniikkayrityksillä ja heidän tyontekijöillään vastuu käyttämiensä raaka-aineiden alkuperästä? Tutkielmani käsittelee …
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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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Responsibility, History, and Authenticity
… is a debate in the literature on free will and responsibility regarding whether responsibility is historical. The focus is on what makes one’s values, desires, beliefs, and other springs of action authentic or “truly one’s own”, and what effect, if any, past manipulation has on authenticity. In …
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Moral Responsibility in Medicine
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Self-deception and Responsibility
… 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 argument …
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Moral responsibility for character
… 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 this …
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Silence, speech, and responsibility
… in fact, according to this objection, the responsibility for any instance of silencing cannot lie with any party other than the speaker and the audience involved. I show that this objection relies on an overly simplistic picture of what audiences can reasonably be required to do in a speech …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… I claim that reading modernism in terms of responsibility yields an uncommon yet critical understanding of its practitioners as deeply invested in ethical problems related to representation. I argue that in the context of British modernism, particularly in the decade following the Great War, …
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Epistemic Responsibility in Echo Chambers
… I suggest that this tension between sympathy and responsibility can be resolved through a character-based approach, where one's beliefs are tied to their character due to the internalization of the norms of the echo chamber. This has epistemic utility in the form of a social heuristic, which not …
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Involuntary action and criminal responsibility.
… will not assist in defining criminal responsibility. The thesis also examines differing types of explanation of action. These include philosophical definitions of action and discussions of how consciousness relates to action. The opinions of courts in five other jurisdictions on …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Future Earnings
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can be studied as an investment, a signaling device, and/or an agency problem. In this paper, we focus on the investment and signaling hypotheses, and thus examine the association between CSR and future realized earnings and cash flow from …
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Corporate social responsibility disclosure: International evidence
… different but linked settings: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in executive compensation design among European countries and within European firms and the consequences of controversial industry-based CSR disclosure on Canadian cannabis firms. In Europe, the dissertation examines …
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Should companies pursue corporate social responsibility?
… profit for its shareholders, corporate social responsibility is therefore seen as a distraction. According to the leading proponent of this view Milton Friedman, 'the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits'i, but does society today stand to maximally benefit if the only …
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Analytics for strategic corporate social responsibility
… strategy, the potential that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can play in gaining competitive advantage for firms have largely been untapped. One of the challenges in unlocking the strategic advantages of CSR lies in measuring results and connecting outcomes to key business priorities. The …
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Extended producer responsibility and comparative advantage
Extended producer responsibility is a business strategy whereby a firm assumes responsibility for the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire lifecycle. By taking such responsibility, a firm realizes an incentive to design environmentally preferable products that are easier to …
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An analysis of a middle school curriculum: through the lens of personal responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice
… which three of Schwab’s four functions, social responsibility, personal responsibility, and social justice, were embedded and measured within core academic curriculum. The study also examined how teachers perceived students’ behaviors as a result of a social justice mindset. </p> <p>The study …
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