1 Robert Adams argues against this assumption, providing counter-examples, in “Involuntary Sins,” Philosophical Review 94 (1985): 3–31. For a more recent argument against the assumption, see Angela M. Smith, “Responsibility for Attitudes: Activity and Passivity in Mental Life,” Ethics 115 (January 2005): 236–71. The assumption seems to appear in the opening of Book III of the Nicomachean Ethics...

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and therefore the simple picture described in this book would be less simple in other firms. This may be true and if so is a remarkable tribute to the previous work of Dr. Jaques and his colleagues in the firm. Nevertheless it scarcely vitiates his theory. But it calls for caution in applying it in an over-simplified way elsewhere, where other psychological tensions act as equally strong determ...

Our goal in this paper is to raise a general question about the relationship between theories of responsibility, on the one hand, and a commitment to conscious attitudes, on the other. The evidence from cognitive science suggests that there are no conscious mental states playing the right causal roles to count as decisions, judgments, or evaluations. We propose that all theorists should determi...

We describe a method for modelling responsibilities, which we define as duties that are discharged by agents, using some resources in a particular context. Responsibilities can be used to analyse socio-technical issues and represent the softer aspects of work. The relationships between responsibilities, agents and resources are captured using graphical responsibility models. These models help t...

Doreen Massey Issues of space, place and politics run deep. There is a long history of the entanglement of the conceptualisation of space and place with the framing of political positions. The injunction to think space relationally is a very general one and, as this collection indicates, can lead in many directions. The particular avenue to be explored in this paper concerns the relationship be...

Publicly traded corporations often operate against the public’s interest, serving a very limited group of stakeholders. This is counter-intuitive, since the public as a whole owns these corporations through direct investment in the stock-market, as well as indirect investment in mutual, index, and pension funds. Interestingly, the public’s role in the proxy voting process, which allows sharehol...

INTRODUCTION Under common law, criminal responsibility usually distinguishes between intentional act and accident, andmost serious criminal offenses consist of both a voluntary act and a guilty mind.1 This treatment presumes that no defendant should be held criminally responsible without a finding of fault. Despite this long-standing conceptual commitment to fairness, criminal law continues to ...