Habitual Ethics? / / Sylvie Delacroix.

"Just like other experts, members of the professions develop their craft thanks to a deep internalisation of both complex cognitive structures and a mix of habits and intuitive understandings. These non-cognitive aspects of expertise can be what distinguishes the merely competent from the truly...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Is a Habit?
  • 2. The Habitual and the Ethical: Unhappy Marriage?
  • 3. Why Does 'Habitual Ethics' Matter Today?
  • 4. Chapters Overview
  • Part I: Habit and Individual Agency
  • 1. From Facts to Norms (and Back)
  • 1. Defining 'The Natural' (and the Role of Science)
  • 2. The 'Motivation Problem'
  • 3. 'Following a Rule'
  • 2. Habit and Skill Acquisition
  • 1. Skilful Coping and Skilful Action
  • 2. The Structure of the Environment and Its Impact on Skill Acquisition
  • 3. 'Tacit' Learning Attitude(s)
  • 3. Routine and Rigidified Habits
  • 1. Teleologically Indeterminate Professional Encounters
  • 2. Humility and 'Sophia': Pre-conditions of Habit Plasticity?
  • 3. Obstacles to Habit Plasticity in Professional Contexts
  • 4. Growing Out of the Habitual
  • 1. Growing Out of the Habitual: Habit v. Reason
  • 2. When 'Reason' Shields Us from Normative Significance
  • 5. Growing within the Habitual
  • 1. Responsiveness to Reasons
  • 2. Habit and the Work of Attention
  • 3. Responsiveness to the Other: A Forgotten Capability?
  • Part II: Collective Habits and Moral Transformations
  • 6. Law and Habits
  • 1. The Narrow View: The Step from 'The Pre-Legal to the Legal'
  • 2. Non-Deliberative Components within a Genealogy of Legal Normativity
  • 3. The Types of Habits Law May Foster
  • 7. Algorithmic Habits and Social Transformations
  • 1. Inferred Traits and Optimisation Endeavours
  • 2. Precluded Transformations: Alienation through Reification
  • 3. Ensemble Contestability
  • 4. Bottom-Up Data Trusts
  • Conclusion.