Blaming for Unreasonableness: Accountability without Ill Will

HOW TO STOP BLAMING: Six Principles For Accountability Design

The question is: how has the system responded to the rigid rules and controls that have been imposed from the top? Did it improve the system, or did it produce gaming and compliance roleplaying? Have system leaders just blindly gone along with this whole "blame culture" that has been nurtured by Queen's Park to deflect blame from the inner circle of connected operators? Are there any leaders wh...

Epilogue: Accountability without Sovereignty

There is substantial agreement among contributors to this volume that the body of rights and rules that goes generally by the name of law is changing. Municipal law is becoming more responsive to changes in the supranational setting. Think, for example, of the influence of international human rights law and environmental conventions, or the effect of EU law on member states of the Union. It is ...

David Oliver: Blaming hospitals for systemwide problems will make winter bleaker.

Our increasing inability to meet the four hour target for emergency departments has been used as a surrogate for all the NHS’s ills. Stories of overcrowding, long waits on trolleys, and ambulances stacking up outside make the headlines week after week. But there have been lamentably few informed discussions in the media of the complex underlying systemic causes behind the pressures at the hospi...

Ethics without Free Will

Moral theories typically rest upon the assumption that conscious deliberation plays a causal role in action; however, a growing body of scientific evidence supports a physicalist account of causation that leaves no causal role for mental activity. In response, I develop a moral theory (including moral truth, motivation, and meaning) that excludes considerations of conscious free will. I then co...

Achieving anesthesia provider accountability will boost OR performance.