Moral Responsibility

Waller, Bruce N.

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“…However, there is disagreement over what exactly makes agents’ actions attributable to them. Some hold that the agent must have exercised control over the action and the conditions that brought it about 26. Others require that an agent can reflect on and identify with her behaviour,27 or that her behaviour issues from a will that reflects her true self28–30 or from a mechanism that is responsive to a range of rational considerations,31 or that her behaviour reflects her evaluative judgments 25…”

Section: Four Worries About Patient Activationmentioning

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Ethics of patient activation: exploring its relation to personal responsibility, autonomy and health disparities

2017

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Discussions of patient-centred care and patient autonomy in bioethics have tended to focus on the decision-making context and the process of obtaining informed consent, leaving open the question of how patients ought to be counselled in the daily maintenance of their health and management of chronic disease. Patient activation is an increasingly prominent counselling approach and measurement tool that aims to improve patients' confidence and skills in managing their own health conditions. The strategy, which has received little conceptual or ethical analysis, raises important questions about how clinicians ought to foster confidence and a sense of control in their patients without exposing them to blame, stigma and other harms. In this paper, we describe patient activation, discuss its relationship to personal responsibility, autonomy and health disparities, and make recommendations regarding its use and measurement.

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Section: Four Worries About Patient Activationmentioning

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Ethics of patient activation: exploring its relation to personal responsibility, autonomy and health disparities

2017

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“…The possibility that it could not be defended at all, i.e., the position of hard determinism, while recognized, was shunned, because it was thought that living without moral responsibility (and the concomitant reactions and practices) would obviously be awful. This almost universal consensus has also been forcefully challenged in our generation (see; e.g., Waller 1990Waller , 2011Pereboom 2001;Sommers 2007). While many, myself included, disagree with the claim that, overall, it would be better to live without belief in free will and moral responsibility, this view must be taken seriously, as an equal partner in the debate.…”

Section: The New Free Will Problemmentioning

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Free Will and Moral Responsibility: The Trap, the Appreciation of Agency, and the Bubble

Smilansky

2012

J Ethics

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In Part I, I reflect in some detail upon the free will problem and about the way its understanding has radically changed. First I outline the four questions that go into making the free will problem. Second, I consider four paradigmatic shifts that have occurred in our understanding of this problem. Then I go on to reflect upon this complex and multi-level situation. In Part II of this essay, I explore the major alternative positions, and defend my views, in new ways. Instead of trying to spread over many issues, I present one new argument against compatibilism, which I call ''The Trap''. This tries to explicate the main problem that I find with this position. Then I present an exposition of what we nevertheless need to follow, which I call ''the Appreciation of Agency''. This supports a measure of compatibilism in a more modest form, and opposes hard determinism. On this basis, we can confront the philosophical and practical questions, as to what we ought to believe and how we ought to live, with respect to free will and moral responsibility. This leads to what I call ''The Bubble,'' which addresses the way in which we deal with the tension between the absence of libertarian free will and The Trap, and the crucial need for the Appreciation of Agency. I conclude by reflecting upon three attributes of the free will problem that I consider central, but that have been neglected in the debate: complexity, risk and tragedy.

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“…Indeed, it could be argued that integrity involves the practice of responsibility (Robinson and Dowson, 2012). It is interesting that Waller (2011), who denies the possibility of moral responsibility, makes no reference to virtues.…”

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“…Waller (2011) suggests that the idea of responsibility based upon rational decision making is a "fiction". He argues that decisions are made in intuitive, emotional, response, based in learned behaviour, and that any rationalisation is post hoc.…”

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Exploring responsibility

Robinson

Smith

2012

Journal of Global Responsibility

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Purpose -The purpose of this final paper in the special issue is to extend the critical conversation that has run through this journal about the meaning and practice of responsibility. It will draw together material from the other papers, summarise what is meant by responsibility and offer suggestions for further research. Design/methodology/approach -The paper takes the form of a critical analysis of the concept of responsibility in relation to practice. Findings -The paper argues for the importance of a holistic view of responsibility focused in individual and organisational practice of the virtues. Practical implications -The paper argues for increased dialogue between key stakeholders about the practice and development of responsibility, and for developments in pedagogy that will connect all aspects of ideas, values and practice. Social implications -There is typically a low level of appreciation of what responsibility means. This paper raises this awareness and identifies what responsibility looks like. It emphasises the importance of engraining a responsibility culture in the organisation, and continued dialogue between within, and beyond institutions. Originality/value -The paper provides a virtue-based approach that is based in critical dialogue, extending responsibility beyond conventional CSR thinking and providing the basis of what is a form of universal responsibility. This leads to a unique view of responsibility in culture and the curriculum.

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Moral Responsibility

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Ethics of patient activation: exploring its relation to personal responsibility, autonomy and health disparities

Ethics of patient activation: exploring its relation to personal responsibility, autonomy and health disparities

Free Will and Moral Responsibility: The Trap, the Appreciation of Agency, and the Bubble

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