Making Sense of Vicarious Responsibility: Moral Philosophy Meets Legal Theory

Relationship between Moral Philosophy and Readiness for Change: Mediating Role of Moral Responsibility

Background: Readiness for change as the guarantor of the survival and development of organizations can be developed effectively in the light of moral philosophy and moral responsibility. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between moral philosophy and readiness for change with the mediating role of moral responsibility. Method: This is a descriptive-correlation research. T...

Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

Book Review: Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility

The Smart Theory of Moral Responsibility

The "Smart" of my title is J. J. C. Smart. He has proposed an austere version of compatibilism. 1 The generic doctrine of compatibilism holds that the claim-that all human choices are events in the physical world that are caused either deterministically or indeterministically-is compatible with moral responsibility and desert. 2 According to Smart's version, one is morally responsible for a cho...

The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory