The phrase "ascribing responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of attributing blame or accountability to someone for a particular action or outcome.
Example: "In the investigation, the committee focused on ascribing responsibility for the project's failure to the management team."
Alternatives: "attributing blame" or "assigning accountability".
And this raises the question of freedom, a necessary condition for ascribing responsibility and the heart of his philosophy.
When something goes wrong, a retrospective account of what happened is expected and the more complex the system, the more challenging is the task of ascribing responsibility (Johnson and Powers 2005).
Robots with moral decision-making capabilities may present similar challenges to ascribing responsibility as other technologies, when they introduce new complexities that further obfuscate the chains of accountability that lead back to their creators and users.
According to Rawls, in ascribing responsibility we have to consider persons separately and focus on their own actions so as not to violate principles of justice, principles of justice that for Rawls themselves begin with the value of discrete individuals (Rawls 1971).
According to such views, the practice of ascribing responsibility involves assigning a credit or debit to a metaphorical ledger associated with each agent (Feinberg: 30 1; Glover: 64; Zimmerman: 38 9; and discussion of such views in Watson 1987: 261 2; and Fischer & Ravizza 1998: 8 10, nt. 12).
Poland and Israel have been locked in an diplomatic dispute since Warsaw introduced laws imposing jail terms for ascribing "responsibility or co-responsibility to the Polish nation or state for crimes committed by the German Third Reich".
It ascribes responsibility for this tragicomic incident to the vanity of the Harvard chemistry professor Louis Fieser, who invented napalm.
See exploring Dilemmas, choices and responses to the Holocaust, which looks at the impulse to assign blame and ascribe responsibility for what happened as a way of making sense of the events and understanding why and how they happened.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who called the report a chilling document that described a war crime, declined at a United Nations news conference on Tuesday to ascribe responsibility for that attack, a position he has consistently held.
In a statement on Tuesday, Médecins Sans Frontières said doctors treated four patients exhibiting symptoms of exposure to chemical agents on Friday in Aleppo province, including two children, one aged three and a five-day-old baby, but did not ascribe responsibility for the attack.
A recent European Union report on anti-Semitism in Europe ascribed responsibility for the rising tide of violence against Jews to "young, disaffected white Europeans," a finding that flew in the face of much hard, if politically inconvenient, evidence that it is for the most part the work of Muslim youths.
