On Responsibility in Science and Law
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Staddon, JER
1999
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.].”...
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1999
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Cambridge University Press
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Staddon, J. E. R. (1999). On Responsibility in Science and Law. Cambridge University Press.
Staddon, John E. R. “On Responsibility in Science and Law.” Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Staddon JER. On Responsibility in Science and Law. Cambridge University Press; 1999.
Staddon, John E. R. On Responsibility in Science and Law. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Staddon JER. On Responsibility in Science and Law. Cambridge University Press; 1999.
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press