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Author : Sarah Buss
Release : 2002
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 133/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contours of Agency by : Sarah Buss
Download or read book Contours of Agency written by Sarah Buss. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay.
Author : Deborah DeMott
Release : 2014
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Book Synopsis The Contours and Composition of Agency Doctrine by : Deborah DeMott
Download or read book The Contours and Composition of Agency Doctrine written by Deborah DeMott. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Essay explores the history of formulations of agency doctrine, arguing that agency law can best be rationalized as a distinctive subject by recognizing that an agent acts as an extension of the principal. The Essay relies on historical material, some unpublished, related to the drafting of the Restatements of Agency, the disagreements among Reporters and other participants about the contours of agency law, and the intellectual backdrop against which these experts worked. Their disputes, preceded as they were by challenges to the fundamental coherence of agency law, led to successive formulations of agency doctrine; while attempting to provide a comprehensive level of generality, some formulations threatened to distort established limits on the scope of a principal's responsibility for the actions of a principal. The Essay develops in particular the history of the doctrine of inherent agency power, tracing its origins back to the early days of work on the first Restatement of Agency through to the Restatement Third, which jettisons the doctrine. Originating as a form of catch-all (termed a "third bottle" by those working on the first Restatement) inherent agency power as a doctrine was an over-generalization that responded to the narrowness with which other doctrine were formulated, in particular apparent authority.
Author : John M. Doris
Release : 2015-03-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Talking to Our Selves by : John M. Doris
Download or read book Talking to Our Selves written by John M. Doris. This book was released on 2015-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the unconscious mind. Much philosophical theorizing maintains that the exercise of morally responsible agency consists in judgment and behavior ordered by accurate reflection. On such theories, when human beings are able to direct their lives in the manner philosophers have dignified with the honorific 'agency', it's because they know what they're doing, and why they're doing it. This understanding is compromised by quantities of psychological research on unconscious processing, which suggests that accurate reflection is distressingly uncommon; very often behavior is ordered by surprisingly inaccurate self-awareness. Thus, if agency requires accurate reflection, people seldom exercise agency, and skepticism about agency threatens. To counter the skeptical threat, John M. Doris proposes an alternative theory that requires neither reflection nor accurate self-awareness: he identifies a dialogic form of agency where self-direction is facilitated by exchange of the rationalizations with which people explain and justify themselves to one another. The result is a stoutly interdisciplinary theory sensitive to both what human beings are like—creatures with opaque and unruly psychologies-and what they need: an account of agency sufficient to support a practice of moral responsibility.
Author : Erasmus Mayr
Release : 2011-09-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Understanding Human Agency by : Erasmus Mayr
Download or read book Understanding Human Agency written by Erasmus Mayr. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to three crucial claims about human agency: that agents must be active, that actions are part of the natural order of the universe, and that intentional actions can be explained by the agent's reasons for acting. While all of these claims are indispensable elements of our view of ourselves as human agents, they are in continuous conflict and tension with one another, especially once one adopts the currently predominant view of what the natural order must be like. One of the central tasks of philosophy of action consists in showing how, despite appearances, these conflicts can be resolved and our self-understanding as agents be vindicated. The mainstream of contemporary philosophy of action holds that this task can only be fulfilled by an event-causal reductive view of human agency, paradigmatically embodied in the so-called 'standard model' developed by Donald Davidson. Erasmus Mayr, in contrast, develops a new agent-causal solution to these conflicts and shows why this solution is superior both to event-causalist accounts and to Von Wright's intentionalism about agency. He offers a comprehensive theory of substance-causation on the basis of a realist conception of powers, which allows one to see how the widespread rejection of agent-causation rests on an unfounded 'Humean' view of nature and of causal processes. At the same time, Mayr addresses the question of the nature of reasons for acting and complements its substance-causal account of activity with a non-causal account of acting for reasons in terms of following a standard of success.
Author : Carl B. Klockars
Release : 2004
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 864/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Contours of Police Integrity by : Carl B. Klockars
Download or read book The Contours of Police Integrity written by Carl B. Klockars. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a comprehensive overview of the potential for police misconduct worldwide, leading criminal justice scholars have compiled survey and case data from 10 countries chronicling police integrity and misconduct.
