Heads of project: Philipp-Alexander Hirsch, Markus Kneer, Levin Güver
Both the legal and the everyday attribution of responsibility are based on a rationalist, naive psychology that interprets human action as behaviour caused by epistemic and optative states. The different degrees of legal and everyday attributions of responsibility correspond to the possible combinations of different epistemic states (such as knowledge, foresight as practically certain, probable or merely possible, not knowing, etc.) and optative states (such as desiring, striving, accepting, indifference, etc.).
