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Author | : Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-01-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1402039824 |
This book is an exploration of what it takes for an event to count as an action. I first became interested in this topic nearly a decade ago while working on a different topic. I kept coming across philosophers making claims about the nature of action that seemed false or at least dubious to me. As a consequence I turned to the philosophy of action directly, to get to the heart of the matter. I have wrestled with this territory ever since. I hope that, with this book, I have finally earned the intuitions that put me at odds with the philosophers I was originally reading. This book develops ideas in Part Two of my doctoral dissertation, which I wrote at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I loved being at Queen’s, for both professional and personal reasons. My thanks go to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support as a doctoral candidate. Steve Leighton and Ronald de Sousa were readers for my dissertation. They provided some early and invaluable challenges to the ideas developed here. My deepest debt of gratitude is owed to David Bakhurst, my supervisor. I learned a lot from David; this book would not be the same without his help.
Author | : Mark Alznauer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107078121 |
The first book-length treatment of a central concept in Hegel's practical philosophy - the theory of responsibility. This theory is both original and radical in its emphasis on the role and importance of social and historical conditions as a context for our actions.
Author | : Tracy Isaacs |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2011-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199782962 |
Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts is a philosophical investigation of the complex moral landscape we find in collective scenarios such as genocide, global warming, organizational negligence, and oppressive social practices. Tracy Isaacs argues that an accurate understanding of moral responsibility in collective contexts requires attention to responsibility at the individual and collective levels.
Author | : Mary Small |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404810528 |
Explains what responsibility is and ways to be responsible.
Author | : David Shapiro |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1351847872 |
This new book by David Shapiro, author of the classic Neurotic Styles, throws light, from a clinical standpoint, on a subject of importance, both theoretically and for therapeutic practice, for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as for those with general interests in philosophy or psychology. A Psychodynamic View of Action and Responsibility explores the individual’s experience of ownership or responsibility for what he or she does, says, and even believes, and their avoidance of that experience. David Shapiro considers the self-deception necessary for these disclaimers of responsibility and the surrender of personal conviction and autonomous judgment. With numerous excerpts from therapeutic sessions, he shows these to be self-protective reactions forestalling or dispelling the anxiety of internal conflict and also, as in false confessions, external threat or intimidation. Shapiro presents this important thesis in his usual lucid way and in many contexts. Its recognition, in his view, is critical for therapeutic work. This book demonstrates the central place in psychological dynamics of the subjective sense of personal responsibility or ownership of what one says or does. The subject is nowhere treated with the depth and emphasis on subjective experience seen in these chapters. A Psychodynamic View of Action and Responsibility will appeal to professionals and students of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as clinical psychologists, CBT practitioners, philosophers, and legal scholars.
Author | : Neil Levy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198704631 |
Neil Levy presents a new theory of freedom and responsibility. He defends a particular account of consciousness—the global workspace view—and argues that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. There are good reasons to think that the naïve assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true.
Author | : Randolph Clarke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199347522 |
Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.
Author | : Bruce N. Waller |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2024-12-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262553813 |
A vigorous attack on moral responsibility in all its forms argues that the abolition of moral responsibility will be liberating and beneficial. In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. The scientific understanding of human behavior and the causes that shape human character, he contends, leaves no room for moral responsibility. Waller argues that moral responsibility in all its forms—including criminal justice, distributive justice, and all claims of just deserts—is fundamentally unfair and harmful and that its abolition will be liberating and beneficial. What we really want—natural human free will, moral judgments, meaningful human relationships, creative abilities—would survive and flourish without moral responsibility. In the course of his argument, Waller examines the origins of the basic belief in moral responsibility, proposes a naturalistic understanding of free will, offers a detailed argument against moral responsibility and critiques arguments in favor of it, gives a general account of what a world without moral responsibility would look like, and examines the social and psychological aspects of abolishing moral responsibility. Waller not only mounts a vigorous, and philosophically rigorous, attack on the moral responsibility system, but also celebrates the benefits that would result from its total abolition.
Author | : Alexander Brown |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1847063993 |
Individual responsibility is an issue at the heart of public debates surrounding justice today - this book explores the philosophical implications of this hugely topical contemporary debate.
Author | : John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-03-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195179552 |
A collection of John Martin Fischer's essays on free will and moral responsibility. Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the contention that moral responsibility does not require free will in the sense that implies alternative possibilities and a sketch of a comprehensive theory of moral responsibility.