But, "I'm less interested in identifying blame than fixing the problem," he said.
Mr. Fischer, who has worked in the red-light district for 20 years, and two other Dutch landlords who did not want to be identified, blame foreign pimps for ruining the atmosphere.
Mr Hoffman's book is good at showing how biology helps identify blame, but it could have done more to indicate how science might make the way people are punished more effective.
Instead of identifying blame with any particular attitude (like a judgment or emotion) or combination of attitudes (like a belief-desire pair), functional accounts of blame identify blame by its functional role.
Identifying blame in the case of childhood obesity often falls squarely on the parents.
However, Li Jiang, from the Sichuan provincial propaganda office, later said that figure referred to the total number of bodies identified, blaming mistranslation by an official interpreter.
Alternatively, we could categorize theories of blame according to those psychological states or dispositions that are identified with blame.
The inquiry into the case of Gurpal Virdi, a Sikh, also identified a "blame culture" in the force.
A world composed of big, impersonal things will appear unmoveable, as compared with people who can be identified, praised, blamed and even changed.
Hood (2011) identifies three types of blame-avoidance strategy.
