Sentence examples for subject of responsibility from inspiring English sources

There is a moral dimension to how an action can be deemed responsible or irresponsible, and there is an epistemic dimension related to the quality of knowledge of the subject of responsibility, which in this context is scientific knowledge.

The former hold that only individual agents or natural persons can be properly held responsible, while the latter hold that some collectives do count as subjects of responsibility (cf. Mathiesen 2006; Pettit 2007b; Hindriks 2009); depending on context and group size, there may be a number of tenable intermediate positions on this spectrum.

Last year, the company made a deal with NBC to become the presenting or lead sponsor of a pair of programs on the subject of personal responsibility.

Bice was now sleepy (the emotion had been too great for her); Maja sat silent and ate her lunch, which a nurse had brought in on a tray; and I nodded to Einstein's words, searching impatiently for a way out of dreams to the subject of the responsibility of modern scientists.

It's difficult to know even where to begin to address the impoverished interpretive twaddle put forward by Franklin Graham on the subject of our responsibilities to immigrants and refugees.

A bit later, he clarifies that only a certain kind of agent qualifies as a moral agent and is thus properly subject to ascriptions of responsibility, namely, one who possess a capacity for decision.

He is voluble on the subject of his fiduciary responsibility as a chairman of public companies.

Twelve years after the last volume of the trilogy, Barker, still haunted herself, went back to the subject of art's responsibility to war in Life Class (2007).