Taking Responsibility

Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Cigarette advertising to women: taking responsibility.

Consciousness, free will, and moral responsibility: Taking the folk seriously

In this paper, I offer evidence that folk views of free will and moral responsibility accord a central place to consciousness. In sections 2 and 3, I contrast action production via conscious states and processes with action in concordance with an agent's long-standing and endorsed motivations, values, and character traits. Results indicate that conscious action production is considered much mor...

The Role of Responsibility in Strategic Risk-Taking

We explore play between groups where one member of each 2-person group dictates the play of that group and is therefore responsible for the payoff of the other group member. We compare this to play when the game is the same, but each person is playing only for herself. Consistent with the principle of responsibility-alleviation described in Charness (2000), we find that a sense of responsibilit...

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...