Social dimensions of moral responsibility First Edition by Hutchison

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190609613
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190609610
• Author(s):  Hutchison, Katrina; Mackenzie, Catriona; Oshana, Marina

To what extent are we responsible for our actions? Philosophical theorizing about this question has recently taken a social turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional metaphysical concerns about free will and determinism. Recent theories have attended to the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of moral responsibility practices and the role of the moral environment in scaffolding agency. Yet, the implications of social inequality and the role of social power for our moral responsibility practices remains a surprisingly neglected topic. The conception of agency involved in current approaches to moral responsibility is overly idealized, assuming that our practices involve interactions between equally empowered and situated agents.

In twelve new essays and a substantial introduction, this volume systematically challenges this assumption, exploring the impact of social factors such as power relationships and hierarchies, paternalism, socially constructed identities, race, gender and class on moral responsibility. Social factors have bearing on the circumstances in which agents act as well as on the person or people in the position to hold that agent accountable for his or her action. Additionally, social factors bear on the parties who pass judgment on the agent.

Table contents:

1. Power, Social Inequities, and the Conversational Theory of Moral Responsibility
2. Moral Responsibility and the Social Dynamics of Power and Oppression
3. Ascriptions of Responsibility Given Commonplace Relations of Power
4. The Social Constitution of Agency and Responsibility: Oppression, Politics, and Moral Ecology
5. Two Ways of Socializing Moral Responsibility: Circumstantialism versus Scaffolded-Responsiveness
6. Respecting Each Other and Taking Responsibility for Our Biases
7. Socializing Responsibility
8. Moral Responsibility, Respect, and Social Identity
9. Answerability: A Condition of Autonomy or Moral Responsibility (or Both)?
10. Answerability without Blame?
11. Personal Relationships and Blame: Scanlon and the Reactive Attitudes
12. Sharing Responsibility: The Importance of Tokens of Appraisal

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