Ethics and Agency Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics and Agency Theory write by Norman E. Bowie. This book was released on 1992. Ethics and Agency Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Agency theory involves what is known as the principal-agent problem, a topic widely discussed in economics, management, and business ethics today. It is a characteristic of nearly all modern business firms that the principals (the owners and shareholders) are not the same people as the agents (the managers who run the firms for the principals). This creates situations in which the goals of the principals may not be the same as the agents--the principals will want growth in profits and stock price, while agents may want growth in salaries and positions in the hierarchy. The fourth volume in the Ruffin Series in Business, this book explores the ethical consequences of agency theory through contributions by ethicists, economists, and management theorists.
Agency and the Foundations of Ethics
Agency and the Foundations of Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agency and the Foundations of Ethics write by Paul Katsafanas. This book was released on 2013-02-28. Agency and the Foundations of Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism—the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting—and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and practical grip of normative claims.
The Ethics of Need
The Ethics of Need - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ethics of Need write by Sarah Clark Miller. This book was released on 2013-03-01. The Ethics of Need available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care ethics to establish that our mutual and inevitable interdependence gives rise to a duty to care for the needs of others. Further, she argues that we are obligated not merely to meet others’ needs but to do so in a manner that expresses "dignifying care," a concept that captures how human interactions can grant or deny equal moral standing and inclusion in a moral community. She illuminates these theoretical developments by examining two cases where urgent needs require a caring and dignifying response: the needs of the elderly and the needs of global strangers. Those working in the areas of feminist theory, women’s studies, aging studies, bioethics, and global studies should find this volume of interest.
Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics
Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics write by Lori Keleher. This book was released on 2019-03-14. Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Economists, philosophers, and policy experts from the Global North and South advance the conversation on the ethical dimensions of agency and democracy in development. These diverse essays from leading development academics and practitioners will interest students and scholars of global justice, international development and political philosophy.
Believing Against the Evidence
Believing Against the Evidence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Believing Against the Evidence write by Miriam Schleifer McCormick. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Believing Against the Evidence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book, McCormick argues that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs and actions are both products of agency. Two important implications of this thesis, both of which deviate from the dominant view in contemporary philosophy, are 1) it can be permissible (and possible) to believe for non-evidential reasons, and 2) we have a robust control over many of our beliefs, a control sufficient to ground attributions of responsibility for belief.
