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Moral Responsibility and the Moral Community: Is Moral Responsibility Essentially Interpersonal?

Journal of Ethics, 2016
Many philosophers endorse the idea that there can be no moral responsibility without a moral community and thus hold that such responsibility is essentially interpersonal. In this paper, various interpretations of this idea are distinguished, and it is argued that no interpretation of it captures a significant truth.
Michael J Zimmerman, Zimmerman Michael J
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The Moral Responsibility of the Hospital

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1982
The hospital has legal liability. Does it also have moral responsibility? Is it a moral agent, and if so in what sense? There are two issues involved, one conceptual and the other normative. The conceptual issue is whether a hospital can be morally responsible.
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Moral Responsibility, Consciousness and Psychiatry

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2005
This article discusses the connection between consciousness and responsibility. Moral responsibility plays a crucial, but often implicit role in psychiatry in that it is often a therapeutic aim as well as an important evaluative concept. This article explains one of the more influential ‘psychological’ theories of moral responsibility, developed by ...
John Mcmillan, John Mcmillan, Grant Gillett   +2 more
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Moral Responsibility

2010
This article focuses on compatibilist approaches to moral responsibility—that is, approaches that see moral responsibility as compatible with the causal order of the world. A separate Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy article considers “Free Will” and incompatibilist perspectives.
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Collective Moral Responsibility as Joint Moral Responsibility

2020
In this chapter, I elaborate the theory of collective moral responsibility as joint moral responsibility (JMR). Roughly speaking, other things being equal, participants in a morally significant joint action are collectively morally responsible for that action, i.e. they are jointly morally responsible for it.
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Moral Responsibility and "Moral Luck"

The Philosophical Review, 1995
This paper has two purposes. The first (part 1) is to defend a distinctive account of moral responsibility; the second (part 2), to argue that "moral luck," understood as a susceptibility of moral desert to lucky or unlucky outcomes, does not exist. The strategy will be to show that if moral responsibility is correctly understood, the phenomena that ...
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Responsiveness And Moral Responsibility

1988
Abstract We distinguish between creatures who can legitimately be held morally responsible for their actions and those who cannot. Among the actions a morally responsible agent performs, we distinguish between those actions for which the agent is morally responsible and those for which he is not.
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Moral Development and Moral Responsibility

Monist, 2003
At the end of Section of "Freedom and Resentment,"1 just after he has drawn our attention to the reactive attitudes, P. F. Strawson remarks, "The object of these commonplaces is to try to keep before our minds something it is easy to forget when we are engaged in philosophy, espe cially in our cool, contemporary style, viz., what it is actually like to
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The Moral Psychology of Moral Responsibility

2022
AbstractIn this chapter I survey the two main families of views about the mental capacities that distinguish responsible agents from non-responsible agents. These are self-expression views, which maintain that responsible agency is essentially about being able to express one's practical stance or moral orientation in conduct; and reasons-responsiveness
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On Moral Responsibility:

2013
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