sumers/users to comply with the supplied information. Safety assessment and risk communication is a dynamic process. Our knowledge base is constantly increasing, and society's interpretation ofwhat constitutes safety is an evolving process. As newer technology becomes available to better qualify and quantify the potential adverse effects of materials, safe and acceptable conditions for use beco...

Philosophers who have written about implicit bias have claimed or implied that individuals are not responsible, and therefore not blameworthy, for their implicit biases, and that this is a function of the nature of implicit bias as implicit: below the radar of conscious reflection, out of the control of the deliberating agent, and not rationally revisable in the way many of our reflective belie...

What is a responsible geography? From where do its responsibilities spring? And to what does it respond? These have always been critical questions for geographers to ask, but they are now all the more urgent given the ways 'responsibility' is being redefined by global elites to promote everything from pre-emptive social auditing to pre-emptive war. "[W]e now have to be responsible for things we...

Whenandunderwhat circumstances arewe responsible for our actions?What roledoes conscious awareness of one’s actions play in the assessment and ascription of responsibility? To answer these questions, Neil Levy has written a provocative and interesting account of the necessary role of consciousness in the assessment of responsibility for action. In an economical 150 pages, Levy makes the case fo...

English as well as French differentiates the term holy from the term sacred – in fact, Levinas' book "Du sacré au saint" is translated as "From the Sacred to the Holy". This is illustrative of the extent to which the meanings of the two words differ. God is called "The Holy One Blessed be He", but we would find it peculiar to refer to Him as "The Sacred One". By contrast, when referring to plac...

This article proceeds from the argument that while the discourse of social responsibility (SR) is increasingly evident in pedagogies circulating through the workplace, its actual practices tend to be obscured beneath complex tensions and moral precepts presented as self-evident. Through an examination of individuals’ learning of SR in the workplace contexts of small enterprise, this discussion ...

Abstract: Vicarious responsibility is sometimes analysed by considering the different kinds of agents involved—who vicariously responsible for actions whom? In this paper, I discuss vicarious from a angle: in what sense agent responsible? do ways which one may take events caused another or process. three senses taking responsibility—accepting fault, assuming obligations, and fulfilling obligati...