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PRELIMINARIES
- Acting
- Responsibility
THE IGNORANT SCIENTIST
- The Problem of Ignorance
- Pure and Applied Research
- Blame
EXCUSES
- Kinds of Excuse
- The `Conceptual Defence`
- The `Political Defence`
- The `Empirical Defence`
CONCLUSION

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*I am very grateful to Julian Lamont for this helpful comments on an earlier version.
Suppose someone, call her P, does something which leads via some causal process
to an outcome g which P neither intends nor foresees. Could P be responsible for
g? P is of course causally responsible for g, for that is the hypothesis, but could she
be responsible in some other sense such that she could be praised or blamed for
bringing about g? There are various sorts of responsibility which attach praise or
blame, including legal, social and moral responsibility. There is nothing
praiseworthy or blameworthy in any of these weighty senses about doing
something trivial, so we will assume that g is significant in that it affects people in
some non-trivial way. It would, however, appear at first sight that P could not
possibly be responsible for something if she neither intends it nor foresees it.
Writing in a different context, in connection with science policy and his battle with

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