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Arthurs, Frank. "Free will, determinism, and moral responsibility." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6857/.

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The first half of this thesis is a survey of the PSR, followed by consideration of arguments for and against the principle. This survey spans from the Ancient Greeks to the present day, and gives the reader a sense of the ways in which the PSR has been used both implicitly and explicitly throughout the history of philosophy. I argue that, while none of the arguments either for or against the PSR provide conclusive evidence of its truth or falsity, we should adopt a presumption in its favour. The best hope the PSR sceptic has of demonstrating the PSR’s falsity would be to find empirical evidenc
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Dean, Brian Edward. "The problem of moral luck the indeterminacy of moral responsibility and the instability of moral judgment /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Evans, Blake W. S. "Determined Freedom: On Moral Responsibility Between Chance and Necessitation." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619724559950428.

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Stern, Reuben E. "Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/101.

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This thesis explores the merits and limits of John Hawthorne’s contextualist analysis of free will. First, I argue that contextualism does better at capturing the ordinary understanding of ‘free will’ than competing views because it best accounts for the way in which our willingness to attribute free will ordinarily varies with context. Then I consider whether this is enough to conclude that the contextualist has won the free will debate. I argue that this would be hasty, because the contextualist, unlike her competitors, cannot tell us whether any particular agent is definitively free, and th
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Hallin, Nathalie. "FROM GUILT TO REGRET : The impact of neuroscientific evidence upon our ideas of libertarian free will and moral responsibility." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-7175.

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In this essay I will investigate some different opinions about how or whether we should change our views concerning moral responsibility if neuroscience shows that contra-causal free will is implausible and also argue that holding people morally responsible is not the best method of making people act morally. A common approach is to argue that we can hold people responsible in a non-absolute sense and many argue that this has practical benefits (i.e. that people would act more morally). I evaluate different alternatives and conclude that there are different beliefs and opinions that cause disa
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Lustila, Getty L. "Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/118.

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Paul Russell argues that the interpretation of Hume as a classical compatibilist is misguided. Russell defends a naturalistic reading of Humean freedom and moral responsibility. On this account, Hume holds two theses: that moral responsibility is a product of our moral sentiments, and that our concept of moral freedom is derived from our considerations of moral responsibility. Russell claims that Hume’s theory of the passions is non-cognitivist, and thus that his account of moral judgment fails to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions or qualities of mind. He concludes that Hum
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Anton, Audrey Lauren. "Sources and Reasons: Moral Responsibility and the Desert of Praise and Blame." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306299866.

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Giese, Stephen D. "An examination of Jonathan Edwards' analysis of the Arminian objections to moral necessity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Coates, Daniel Justin. "Manipulation and Hard Compatibilism." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/28.

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In this paper I consider a recent objection to compatibilism—the manipulation argument. This argument relies on two plausible principles: a manipulation principle that holds that manipulation precludes free will and moral responsibility, and a ‘no difference principle’ that holds that manipulation is relevantly similar to determinism. To respond to this argument, the compatibilist must reject either the manipulation principle or the ‘no difference principle.’ I argue that rejecting the manipulation principle offers the compatibilist the most compelling response to the manipulation argument. In
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Miller, Maggie. "A Preference for Freedom: Kantian Implications for an Incompatibilist Will and Practical Accountability." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1228.

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This thesis aims to provide a coherent account of free will and practical grounds to prefer it. Its goal is to develop a pragmatic understanding of agency by which to hold individuals morally accountable. The paper begins with a critique of P.F. Strawson, whose seminal paper “Freedom and Resentment” bypasses the question of free will altogether in its claims about morality. Subsequently, it proceeds to a defense of incompatibilism that traces an argument through the existing literature. From this position, it claims that neither Strawson nor traditional compatibilists can provide an account of
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Kupcu, Yoldas Aybuke. "In Search Of Free Will." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611721/index.pdf.

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Free will is a paramount concept that is central to our everyday lives, society and moral judgements. In this thesis, I search for the conditions under which free will can exist. This is done in relation to two topics: determinism and agency. Finally, I also explore the relation between free will and several social and philosophical concepts, and discuss briefly what would be the case if there were no free will.
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Kelsey, Eli Benjamin. "Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/46.

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Galen Strawson’s Basic Argument is an attempt to prove that no agent can meet the demands for true moral responsibility. The Basic Argument proceeds on the assumption that, in order for an agent to be truly morally responsible for her actions, she must be truly responsible for her reasons for performing those actions, which Strawson contends is impossible since it requires an infinite regress of truly responsible decisions to have the reasons one has. In my thesis, I take issue with the Basic Argument. I argue that, contrary to Strawson’s claims, the Basic Argument is not persuasive to those w
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Vargas, Márcio Souza de. "Ensaios em teoria microeconômica : livre arbítrio, autocontrole e responsabilidade moral." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10567.

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Esta dissertação constitui-se de três ensaios. O primeiro trata da impossibilidade de existência do livre arbítrio dentro e fora da Teoria Econômica Utilitarista. O segundo aborda a questão da inconsistência temporal (i.e. quando a ação empreendida presentemente pelo agente não é coerente com a decisão tomada anteriormente por ele) sem que para tanto se recorra às noções de autocontrole e força de vontade. O terceiro trata da possibilidade de responsabilidade moral na ausência de livre arbítrio e autocontrole/ força de vontade.<br>This dissertation contains three essays. The first one regards
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Ovenden, Christopher David. "Towards a theory of control." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/towards-a-theory-of-control(ecf7fcd2-5ccd-45e7-a02e-86202c390057).html.

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Control is a concept that has received surprisingly little attention in the philosophy of action and ethics, given its prima facie ties to freedom, responsibility, intentionality and agency more generally. In this collection I take the first step towards an account of agential control: the kind of control that agents commonly exercise over actions, events, and even other agents. In the introduction I give a sketch of the complete thesis on control: characterising agential control as consisting primarily in the restriction or guidance of some process, and secondarily in the continuous monitorin
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Nunes, Cristina de Moraes. "RESPONSABILIDADE E SENTIMENTOS MORAIS: UMA PROPOSTA DE NATURALIZAÇÃO DA RESPONSABILIDADE MORAL." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/3869.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This study seeks to address the relevance of moral sentiments for moral responsibility attribution through reactive theory of Peter Strawson and his critics. The central thesis which I try to hold onto is that the attribution of moral responsibility is something quite complex, it is related to how we respond the actions of the agents, but also involves the rational capacity of reflective self-control agent, being able to present reasons for his action and be able to control his desires. Thus, the morally responsible agent is one th
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Caspar, Emilie. "What governs our sense of being an agent? An experimental and electrophysiological approach of how disturbances in the intention-action-outcome chain modulate sense of agency." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/221558.

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For centuries, criminal and deviant behaviors have always been considered as a mystery because they do not represent the social norm. Why do some people hurt others or themselves? What guides the decision to perform good or bad actions? What is the role played by individual differences in such choices? Criminal behavior is not an unitary phenomenon and many approaches can be proposed to understand it. In the present thesis, I focused on the subjective experience that accompanies our actions commonly known as the sense of agency. The sense of agency can be defined as the experience of being the
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Cossara, Stefano. "Pour un quiétisme pragmatique : en finir avec le débat sur le libre arbitre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040159.

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Le débat sur le libre arbitre continue depuis des siècles, réfractaire à toute tentative de solution positive. Cette thèse présente une contribution visant à dissoudre le problème plutôt qu’à le résoudre. L’approche négative et « thérapeutique » du travail est d’inspiration largement wittgensteinienne : son noyau réside dans la thèse selon laquelle les problèmes philosophiques – y compris le problème du libre arbitre – ont pour origine une confusion dans l’usage des mots. Dans les deux premiers chapitres, j’examine le débat analytique sur le libre arbitre et l’approche récente de la philosophi
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Karlsson, Markus. "The Neuroscience of Decision Making : The Importance of Emotional Neural Circuits in Decision Making." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16033.

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The neuroscience of decision making is laying the puzzle of how the brain computes decisions. It tries to sort out which factors are responsible for causing us to choose one way or the other. This thesis reviews to what extent emotional brain processes and their neural circuits impact decision making. The somatic marker hypothesis (SMH) provides a solid dual-system framework for decision making. Dissociating an impulsive system, in which the amygdala is central, and a reflective system mediated by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex(VMPFC). The SMH emphasizes the function of the VMPFC as necess
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Durand, Michiel Christoffel. "Vryheid, verantwoordelikheid en selfmoord." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16317.

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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Responsibility is either linked to duties and expectations, or it is linked to the freedom of an agent. These links are questionable. It is therefore necessary to investigate the freedom and context of commission and omission. There are numerous difficulties in evaluating suicide: - The problem to distinguish between successful suicide and failed pseudo suicide. - The problem of the mind: The limited accessibility of the emotions and attitudes despite its expressibility And the unexpressibility of the experiences desp
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Jeppsson, Sofia. "Practical Perspective Compatibilism." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-72975.

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In this dissertation, I argue for what I call “practical perspective compatibilism”. According to this thesis, an agent with practical freedom is sufficiently free to be a moral agent and morally responsible for his or her actions. The concept of practical freedom is originally found in the writings of Kant. Kant argued that we can view the world from either a theoretical or a practical perspective. The theoretical perspective is that of causal explanation and prediction, whereas the practical perspective is that of choosing what to do and how to act. We see that we are free when we view thing
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Child, Russell. "Is all moral responsibility ultimately individual responsibility?" Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/300/.

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The way people naturally talk about groups suggests they can be held morally responsible in their own right. People speak of blaming the banks for the global financial crisis while praising Oxfam for its charitable endeavours. In spite of this there is a clear tendency in contemporary philosophy to limit moral responsibility to individuals, thereby denying the existence and relevance of collective moral responsibility in general and the moral responsibility of groups like corporations, states and international institutions in particular. In this thesis I develop an account of responsibility th
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Hildebrand, Carl H. "Kant and Moral Responsibility." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20641.

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This project is primarily exegetical in nature and aims to provide a rational reconstruction of the concept of moral responsibility in the work of Immanuel Kant, specifically in his Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (GR), and Critique of Practical Reason (CPrR). It consists of three chapters – the first chapter interprets the concept of freedom that follows from the resolution to the Third Antinomy in the CPR. It argues that Kant is best understood here to be providing an unusual but cogent, compatibilist account of freedom that the author terms meta-compat
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Piovarchy, Adam James. "Situationism and Moral Responsibility." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21787.

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This thesis examines whether it is appropriate to blame the subjects who act wrongly in the situationist psychology experiments for their actions, focusing on the subjects in Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ studies. Both philosophers and psychologists currently lack any convincing explanation for why subjects in these experiments behave as they do. However, one promising avenue which has not been considered is to examine subjects’ perceived reasons for action. If subjects act differently to how we expect because they do not share our assessments of their reasons for action, this would expla
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Piovarchy, Adam James. "Situationism and Moral Responsibility." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21792.

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This thesis examines whether it is appropriate to blame the subjects who act wrongly in the situationist psychology experiments for their actions, focusing on the subjects in Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ studies. Both philosophers and psychologists currently lack any convincing explanation for why subjects in these experiments behave as they do. However, one promising avenue which has not been considered is to examine subjects’ perceived reasons for action. If subjects act differently to how we expect because they do not share our assessments of their reasons for action, this would expla
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Nanni, Milo. "Moral responsibility and ignorance." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49072/.

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The aim of this thesis is to defend a version of volitionism from objections concerning the epistemic condition of moral responsibility (especially of moral culpability). My view states that an agent is morally blameworthy for her action only if (a) the action is morally wrong and (b) she has performed the action against her better judgement that the action is wrong or from a state of culpable ignorance. In chapter 1 I provide reason in favour of volitionism and against attributionism to motivate further articulation of volitionism. In chapter 2 I discuss when it is appropriate to blame an age
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FERNANDES, RITA DE CASSIA CALDEIRAS VILAS. "MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHOICE OR LEVY?" PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28306@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O presente estudo visa oferecer uma reflexão originária sobre responsabilidade moral e responsabilidade legal. A responsabilidade moral será baseada no tomismo, especificamente na Doutrina do Duplo Efeito. Quanto à responsabilidade legal, abordaremos a moralidade do direito em Lon Fuller. No capítulo primeiro estudaremos a Doutrina do Duplo Efeito, também chamada de Teoria do Duplo Efeito, que tem as suas raízes na filo
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Taylor, Andy. "Moral responsibility and subverting causes." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542061.

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Reilly, Elizabeth. "Objectivity and responsibility in moral education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ27233.pdf.

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Tapley, Robin L. "Moral responsibility in physician-assisted death." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/NQ42768.pdf.

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Tapley, Robin L. "Moral responsibility in physician-assisted death /." *McMaster only, 1997.

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Walker, Kyle. "Moral Responsibility "Expressivism," Luck, and Revision." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/119.

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In his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment," Peter Strawson attempts to reconcile incompatibilism and compatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. First, I present the error committed by the proponents of both these traditional views, which Strawson diagnoses as the source of their standoff, and the remedy Strawson offers to avoid the conflict. Second, I reconstruct the two arguments Strawson offers for a theory of moral responsibility that is based on his proposed remedy. Third, I present and respond to two proposed problems for the Strawsonian theory: moral luck and revisionism.
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Zimmermann, Anja. "Ingroup wrongdoing : guilt and moral responsibility." Thesis, University of Kent, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497700.

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Baxter, James Edward. "Valuing others : moral responsibility and psychopathy." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18026/.

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The question of whether psychopaths are morally responsible is a difficult one for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. In comparison to some other forms of mental illness, it is difficult to locate intuitions concerning what our attitudes to psychopaths should be and how they should be treated. This is because, unlike people with some other forms of mental illness, psychopaths (qua psychopaths) do not appear to be mistaken about the facts bearing on their choices, but they do appear to lack understanding of the world in an important way. Working within an understanding of moral responsibi
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Watkins, Jeremy. "Equality, responsibility, and wrongdoing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273449.

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Jurkovic, Lucas. "A Tectonic Theory of Moral Responsibility: How a Concern for Patiency can Make Moral Responsibility Practices More Fair." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34099.

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This thesis develops a tectonic theory of moral responsibility. The word ‘tectonic’ is used metaphorically, to bring to mind the interaction of tectonic plates in the earth’s crust. The theory of moral responsibility developed in the thesis posits that there are two aspects of persons that should be considered within moral responsibility judgments: agency and patiency. I suggest that the ways that these relate to and influence each other can be thought of as similar to the interactions between tectonic plates. I use the term ‘agency’ in its usual sense to refer to the control component of
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Merino, Noël. "Rationality and moral responsibility in romantic love /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5722.

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Corlett, Jay Angelo. "Moral Compatibilism: Rights, responsibility, punishment and compensation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185747.

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The moral status of collectives is an important problem for any plausible moral, social and political philosophy. Are collectives proper subjects of moral rights and moral responsibility (liability) ascriptions? Is it morally justified for the state to punish collectives for criminal offenses, or for the state to force collectives to pay compensation for tort offenses? Moral Individualism denies that collectives are properly ascribed properties such as moral rights, moral liability, and punishability, while Moral Collectivism affirms that some collectives may be legitimately ascribed all such
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Shaw, Elizabeth. "Free will, punishment and criminal responsibility." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9590.

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Retributive attitudes are deeply held and widespread in the general population and most legal systems incorporate retributive elements. It is probably also the dominant theory of punishment among contemporary philosophers of criminal justice. However, retributivism relies on conceptions of free will and responsibility that have, for millennia, fundamentally divided those who have thought seriously about the subject. Our legal system upholds the principle that the responsibility of the offender has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, before the accused can be punished. In view of the intracta
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Robertson, Simon. "Rejecting moral obligation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13225.

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The thesis argues that, were there any moral obligations, they would be categorical; but there are no categorical requirements on action; therefore, there are no moral obligations. The underlying claim is that, because of this, morality itself rests on a mistaken view of normativity. The view of categoricity I provide rests on there being 'external reasons' for action. Having explained the connections between oughts (in particular the ought of moral obligation) and reasons for action in the first part of the thesis, I then develop and defend a version of reasons internalism that I call 'recogn
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Nihlén, Fahlquist Jessica. "Moral responsibility in traffic safety and public health." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Philosophy and History of Technology, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-609.

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Nihlén, Fahlquist Jessica. "Moral responsibility and the ethics of traffic safety." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4670.

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The general aim of this thesis is to present and analyse traffic safety from an ethical perspective and to explore some conceptual and normative aspects of moral responsibility. Paper I presents eight ethical problem areas that should be further analysed in relation to traffic safety. Paper II is focused on the question of who is responsible for traffic safety, taking the distribution of responsibility adopted through the Swedish policy called Vision Zero as its starting point. It is argued that a distinction should be made between backwardlooking and forward-looking responsibility and that Vi
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Curzon, Rebecca Elizabeth Mary. "Expanding individualism : moral responsibility for social structural harms." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9473.

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The central concern of this thesis is the examination of individual agents' moral responsibilities in large-scale social structures. I begin with a discussion of the emergence of social structural harm and the history of the collective responsibility debate. I suggest that previous attempts to make accurate responsibility ascriptions in cases of social structural harm have fallen short, leaving responsibility for the harm caused underdetermined. Arguing that collectivist approaches to large-scale harms are inadequate, because those participating in social structures cannot satisfy the criteria
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Nihlén, Fahlquist Jessica. "Moral responsibility in traffic safety and public health /." Stockholm, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-609.

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Kennett, Jeanette. "Agency and responsibility : a common-sense moral psychology /." Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 2001. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0610/00060671-d.html.

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Johnson, Clarence Shole. "Hume's theory of moral responsibility in the Treatise." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72791.

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Shatsky, Adam. "Moral Responsibility, Frankfurt-Style Cases, and Alternative Possibilities." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1466956440.

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Kabel, Aleks. "Individual Emissions and Moral Responsibility for Climate Harm." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184723.

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This essay argues that personal greenhouse gas emissions render the individual responsible forclimate-related harm to a great extent. To accomplish this, there will primarily be a focus onanswering the most important criticisms of individual climate responsibility. Issues concerningcausality are the first to be brought up, followed by issues concerning direct harm, simpledivision and unintentional contributions to harm, among other topics. The three main conclusionsdrawn in the discussion of these topics are that individual emissions can be considered partialcauses of climate harm, that most e
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Gonzalez, Ariel. "The Incompatibility of Freedom of the Will and Anthropological Physicalism." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1591.

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Many contemporary naturalistic philosophers have taken it for granted that a robust theory of free will, one which would afford us with an agency substantial enough to render us morally responsible for our actions, is itself not conceptually compatible with the philosophical theory of naturalism. I attempt to account for why it is that free will (in its most substantial form) cannot be plausibly located within a naturalistic understanding of the world. I consider the issues surrounding an acceptance of a robust theory of free will within a naturalistic framework. Timothy O’Connor’s reconciliat
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Himmelreich, Johannes. "Agency as difference-making : causal foundations of moral responsibility." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3277/.

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We are responsible for some things but not for others. In this thesis, I investigate what it takes for an entity to be responsible for something. This question has two components: agents and actions. I argue for a permissive view about agents. Entities such as groups or artificially intelligent systems may be agents in the sense required for responsibility. With respect to actions, I argue for a causal view. The relation in virtue of which agents are responsible for actions is a causal one. I claim that responsibility requires causation and I develop a causal account of agency. This account is
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Davenport, Mischa Durham. "Deep Selves in Moral Responsibility: Challenging the Realist Assumption." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20867.

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Deep selves, in one way or another, feature significantly within our folk-psychology and play a particularly central role in our moral responsibility practices. Our intuitions about others’ deep selves explain an otherwise complex pattern of responsibility attribution, with agents being held responsible for behaviour that in some way reflects the contents of their deep selves and getting off the hook for behaviour that doesn’t. Philosophers who have addressed the deep self concept directly have typically done so on the assumption that the object of these intuitions is a real thing - a natural
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