The Logic of Responsibility Voids

The Logic of Responsibility Voids
Author: Hein Duijf
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030926559

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents. Responsibility voids are thought to occur in collective decision-making and in the context of artificial intelligent systems. In these cases, philosophers worry that there is a shortfall of moral responsibility. In particular, such voids are often assumed to justify a notion of collective responsibility that cannot be reduced to individual responsibility. One of the aims of the book is to study how collective responsibility and joint action relate to individual responsibility and individual actions. The book offers a unifying framework for modelling moral responsibility by drawing from modal logic and game theory. The book investigates the possibility and scope of the problem of responsibility voids. One of its characteristics is its pluralistic perspective on moral responsibility: in contrast to giving a unique and all-encompassing definition of it, the book makes progress by spelling out and modelling several conceptions of moral responsibility. One of the appealing features of the book is that a relatively small range of models is used to investigate a variety of conceptions of moral responsibility. The unifying framework can thus be used to characterize the conditions under which responsibility voids are ruled out.

The Logic of Responsibility Voids

The Logic of Responsibility Voids
Author: Hein Duijf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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ISBN: 9783030926564

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents. Responsibility voids are thought to occur in collective decision-making and in the context of artificial intelligent systems. In these cases, philosophers worry that there is a shortfall of moral responsibility. In particular, such voids are often assumed to justify a notion of collective responsibility that cannot be reduced to individual responsibility. One of the aims of the book is to study how collective responsibility and joint action relate to individual responsibility and individual actions. The book offers a unifying framework for modelling moral responsibility by drawing from modal logic and game theory. The book investigates the possibility and scope of the problem of responsibility voids. One of its characteristics is its pluralistic perspective on moral responsibility: in contrast to giving a unique and all-encompassing definition of it, the book makes progress by spelling out and modelling several conceptions of moral responsibility. One of the appealing features of the book is that a relatively small range of models is used to investigate a variety of conceptions of moral responsibility. The unifying framework can thus be used to characterize the conditions under which responsibility voids are ruled out. .

Where Responsibility Takes You

Where Responsibility Takes You
Author: Ilaria Canavotto
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022-11-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 303117111X

This book presents the Ph.D. dissertation of Ilaria Canavotto. The thesis won the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize in 2021 for outstanding dissertations in the fields of logic, language, and information. It combines modal logics of agency, counterfactuals, and norms in order to study the reasoning underlying ascriptions of causal responsibility, the responsibility an agent is subject to because of the states of affairs they have brought about. Ascriptions of causal responsibility involve both causal reasoning and normative reasoning. In order to provide a logical analysis of these components, the dissertation brings together two mainstream logics of actions, STIT (seeing to it that) logic and Propositional Dynamic Logic, and extends them with an analysis of causality, a Lewis-Stalnaker style analysis of counterfactuals, subject matter semantics, and deontic logic. The author uses the resulting logics to investigate a number of philosophical issues underlying ascriptions of causal responsibility and technical issues emerging from the unification of the above-mentioned formal frameworks.

PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Author: Matteo Baldoni
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2019-10-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030337928

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2019, held in Turin, Italy, in October 2019. The 25 full papers presented and 25 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers presented at the PRIMA 2019 conference focus on the following topics: Logic and Reasoning, Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation, Collaboration and Coordination, Economic Paradigms, Human-Agent Interaction, Decentralized Paradigms, and Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems.

Logic in High Definition

Logic in High Definition
Author: Alessandro Giordani
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030534871

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics. Consisting of 10 contributions, the volume is based on papers presented at the Trends in Logic 2019 conference. The various chapters introduce readers to the topic, or apply new types of logical semantics to elucidate subtleties of logical systems and natural language semantics. The book introduces hyperintentional systems that aim at solving some open philosophical problems. Specifically, the first three studies focus on relating semantics, while the following ones discuss fundamental issues related to hyper-intensional semantics or develop hyper-intensional frameworks to address issues in modal, epistemic, deontic and action logic. Authors in this volume present original results on logical systems but also extend beyond this by offering philosophical considerations on the topic as well. This volume will appeal to students and researchers in the field of logic.

PRIMA 2022: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

PRIMA 2022: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Author: Reyhan Aydoğan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031212037

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2020, held in hybrid mode in Valencia, Spain, in November 2022. The 31 full papers presented together with 15 short papers and 1 demo paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The conference covers a wide range of ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-based research.

Research Handbook of Responsible Management

Research Handbook of Responsible Management
Author: Oliver Laasch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2020-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788971965

Outlining origins of the field and latest research trends, this Research Handbook offers a unique and cutting-edge take on the numerous avenues to responsible management in the 21st century. Renowned contributors present iconic viewpoints that have formed the foundation of responsible management research, introducing cutting-edge conceptual lenses for the study of the responsible management process.

Organizing Transnational Accountability

Organizing Transnational Accountability
Author: Christina Garsten
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848442726

In the expanding academic literature on accountability, there remains significant ambiguity about the scope and content of this concept. Boström and Garsten have performed an invaluable service to scholars by providing a fresh focus on how accountability is actually organized in practice. Their intelligently edited collection pulls together a range of disciplinary perspectives on the new organizational settings and instruments engaged with accountability norms. This volume is an excellent contribution both to organizational theory and wider research on transnational governance. Michael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability. There is increasing pressure for accountability, driven by such factors as the globalization of markets, media reports of corporate misconduct, environmental destruction and the violation of human rights. In response, this book focuses on the development of accountability tools and techniques as well as on the organizational arrangements and political struggles behind such endeavours. This unique study theorizes the emerging accountability and corporate social responsibility movement at the transnational level. It focuses on an increasingly recognized aspect of transnational organizational life, which is often mentioned in recent literature, yet sparsely analysed. Organizing Transnational Accountability will be an important and invaluable read for researchers, policymakers and students of social anthropology, sociology, organization theory, political science and critical accounting at graduate levels and above.

A Pragmatic Approach to Agency in Group Activity

A Pragmatic Approach to Agency in Group Activity
Author: Herman Witzel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110628627

A Pragmatic Approach to Agency in Group Activity builds towards an action theory that explains how new forms agency develop in group activity. The approach starts from practical insights about group activity and develops a new understanding of agency from there. This study shows how practical interactions and structures in group activity disrupt individual agency. It is concluded that important features of agency can be realized on a group level. Different types of group activities are analyzed in order to better understand these mechanisms and, consequently, revisit our understanding of agency. It is argued that „intentionality,“ the key concept in individual action theory, merely serves as a pseudo-explanatory connection between specific features of agency and their realization in humans. This is contrasted with empirical research showing that how humans act is far from the idealized concept of intentionality. Consequently, intentionality as a key explanatory concept is rejected and replaced by a diverse set of features of agency for a similarly diverse set of kinds of agency. In this view, groups display new forms agency beyond individual agency without making the groups agents themselves. Such is the nature of group agency.