A social practice account of responsible persons

by Cheshire Calhoun
Contributors: Jules HolroydHeidi MaibomGunnar Björnsson

Edited by Miguel Egler and Alfred Archer

“The Descartes Lectures” is a biennial event at Tilburg University that invites a distinguished philosopher to deliver a series of three lectures, each followed by commentaries from other experts in the field. In 2022, Tilburg University had the honor of hosting Cheshire Calhoun for a series of talks on the important philosophical question of what it means to be a responsible person. The commentators for the lectures were Gunnar Björnsson, Jules Holroyd, and Heidi Maibom. This book is a compilation of the material of Calhoun’s lectures, the commentaries by Björnsson, Holroyd, and Maibom, as well as Calhoun’s replies to their critiques.

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  • isbn
    9789403771083
  • publisher
    Open Press Tilburg University
  • publisher place
    Tilburg, The Netherlands
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    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license
  • rights holder
    Miguel Egler and Alfred Archer
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    The Netherlands
  • series title
    The Descartes Lectures
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Table of contents

Introduction

THE LECTURES

Chapter 1 | Accountability Responsibility

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Method

1.3 Accountability Responsibility

1.4 Conclusion

Chapter 2 | Compliance Responsibility

2.1 From Minimal Accountability Responsibility to Robust Compliance Responsibility

2.2 Compliance Responsibility

2.3 Compliance-Responsibility-Recognizing Attitudes

2.4 Compliance-Responsibility-Recognizing Practices

2.5 Qualifications

2.6 Conclusion

Chapter 3 | Taking Responsibility

3.1 Accommodating Positive Reactive Attitudes

3.2 Responsibility Taking and Social Practices

3.3 Responsibility Taking

3.4 Conclusion

Summary Conclusion

References

COMMENTARIES

Chapter 4 | Non-Idealized Social Practices: Response to Calhoun

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Rejecting Four Assumptions

4.3 Methodology: The Social Practices

4.4 Praise and Pressure

4.5 Social Practices

4.6 References

Chapter 5 | Being Predictable, Being Trustworthy

5.1 What Allows Social Cooperation and Coordination? The Sociopolitical Myth

5.2 Social Cooperation and Coordination: The Philosophical Myth

5.3 Trustworthiness

5.4 Conclusion

5.5 References

Chapter 6 | Responsibility: Expected, Taken, Recognized

6.1 Calhoun on Responsible Persons

6.2 Do We Assume, by Default, that People Are Responsibility Takers?

6.3 Requiring Reasons, Evaluative Autonomy, Balancing Norms

6.4 Responsible Behavior, Responsible Persons, and Default Assumptions

6.5 What Can We Learn from Positive Reactive Attitudes?

6.6 Concluding Remarks

6.7 References

REPLIES TO COMMENTATORS

Chapter 7 | Björnsson on Taking Responsibility

7.1 Preliminaries

7.2 Engaging with Björnsson

Chapter 8 | Holroyd and Non-Idealizing Accounts

8.1 Preliminaries

8.2 Engaging with Holroyd

Chapter 9 | Maibom and Social Coordination

9.1 Preliminaries

9.2 Engaging with Maibom

Chapter 10 | A Short Note on Gratitude, Praise, and Trust

References