Taking Responsibility for Progress Assessments

Neuroimaging and Responsibility Assessments

Could neuroimaging evidence help us to assess the degree of a person's responsibility for a crime which we know that they committed? This essay defends an affirmative answer to this question. A range of standard objections to this high-tech approach to assessing people's responsibility is considered and then set aside, but I also bring to light and then reject a novel objection-an objection whi...

Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Progress, Values, and Responsibility

"In any case, progress implies that it looks much greater than it really is." This statement by the Austrian poet Johann Nestroy became famous when Ludwig Wittgenstein chose it as a text for the beginning of his Philosophical Investigations. Is it true, however? It seems to be true for the problems, methods, and methodologies of philosophy itself—for Wittgenstein's own investigations, which dep...

Cigarette advertising to women: taking responsibility.

Taking responsibility for complexity - ODI Briefing Papers 68

• It is crucial to recognise when policy and programming faces complexity, rather than sweeping it under the carpet • Traditional approaches to implementation do not apply when it comes to complex problems, and can have serious sideeffects • Appropriate responses need to work with the constraints on where, when and how knowledge and decision making can be linked Many of the problems that face p...