This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff consequences of his decision for a receiver. A third party can punish the dictator after observing the dictator’...

Abstract: To understand the dynamics of the manufacturer’s effort to reduce pollution in a supply chain consisting of manufacturer, retailer, and consumers, we analyze four cases according to consumer awareness of the pollution’s harmful effect, i.e., environmentally aware versus ignorant, and supply chain coordination, i.e., competitive versus cooperative. Applying differential games, we deriv...

I am quite aware that anybody doubting the value of vaccines and vaccination for smallpox, to which you refer in this article, is at once written down as an ignorant crank. I have, however, been studying the Registrar-General's figures and other facts relating to smallpox, and I am bound to say, so far, I cannot find anything whatever in favour of the practice. I wish you could help me to find ...

Theorists attending to the epistemic condition on responsibility are divided over whether moral ignorance is ever exculpatory. While those who argue that reasonable expectation required for blameworthiness often maintain can excuse, theorists embrace a quality of will approach not sanguine about prospect excuses among morally ignorant wrongdoers. Indeed, it sometimes argued always reflects insu...