On Responsibility in Science and Law
| dc.contributor.author | Staddon, John ER | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-08T21:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-08T21:02:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Respon’sible, liable to be called to account or render satisfaction: answerable: capable of dis-charging duty: able to pay.2 The old Chambers’s dictionary gives a behavioristic view of re-sponsibility: in terms of action, not thought or belief. “Lust in the heart” is not equated to lust in flagrante. It is this view I shall explore in this paper, rather than the more subjective notion of moral responsibility, as in “I feel moral responsibility (i.e., guilt) for not doing anything to save the Tutsis [Hutus, ethnic Albanians, etc.].”... | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Staddon, J. (1999) On responsibility in science and law. Social Philosophy and Policy, 16, 146-174. Reprinted in Responsibility. E. F. Paul, F. D. Miller, & J. Paul (eds.), 1999. Cambridge University Press, pp. 146-174. | |
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| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
| dc.relation.journal | Social Philosophy and Policy | |
| dc.subject | legal responsibility,deterrence,punishment,Menendez,Skinner,Menninger,Ann Landers | |
| dc.title | On Responsibility in Science and Law | |
| dc.type | Other article | |
| duke.contributor.orcid | Staddon, John ER|0000-0003-0205-5083 | |
| duke.description.volume | 16 | |
| pubs.begin-page | 146 | |
| pubs.end-page | 174 |