caa a22 4500 38811021X CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500002429 doi S0265052500002429 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500002429 Staddon John Experimental Psychology, Duke University and the University of Western Australia On Responsibility in Science and Law [Elektronische Daten] [John Staddon] Respon'sible, liable to be called to account or render satisfaction: answerable: capable of discharging duty: able to pay. The old Chambers's dictionary gives a behavioristic view of responsibility: 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 essay, 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.].” My presumption is that responsibility implies capability: you cannot be held responsible for something over which you have no control (Hutus, ethnic Albanians, etc.). There is obviously uncertainty in some cases—where control is less than total, where the degree of potential control depends on our own efforts, where we cannot know if we have control until we try to exert it, etc. The relation between responsibility and degree of control is a separate topic which I shall not treat here. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1999 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999), 146-174 0265-0525 16:2<146 1999 16 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Staddon John Experimental Psychology, Duke University and the University of Western Australia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/2(1999), 146-174 0265-0525 16:2<146 1999 16 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge