Shared Intentions And Collective Responsibility
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Shared Intentions And Collective Responsibility
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Author : Peter A. French
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2006-09-14
Shared Intentions And Collective Responsibility written by Peter A. French and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-14 with Philosophy categories.
This volume of Midwest Studies focuses on the currently hot topic in ethics and action theory of shared intentions and relates it to issues in collective responsibility. Each of the essays in the volume is by an internationally known scholar who has published seminal pieces on various aspects of the concepts of shared intention and collective responsibility. Features all new essays that expand the discussion and invite those interested in the topic to examine a variety of ways for understanding the basic idea and the application of the notion of shared intention to a range of contemporary issues in the ethics of responsibility
The Routledge Handbook Of Collective Responsibility
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Author : Saba Bazargan-Forward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-19
The Routledge Handbook Of Collective Responsibility written by Saba Bazargan-Forward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible only for their contribution to the act? Are individuals responsible for actions done by their group even when they don’t contribute to the outcome? Can a corporation or institution be held morally responsible apart from the responsibility of its members? The Handbook’s 35 chapters—all appearing here for the first time and written by an international team of experts—are organized into four parts: Part I: Foundations of Collective Responsibility Part II: Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility Part III: Domains of Collective Responsibility Part IV: Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility Each part begins with a short introduction that provides an overview of issues and debates within that area and a brief summary of its chapters. In addition, a comprehensive index allows readers to better navigate the entirety of the volume’s contents. The result is the first major work in the field that serves as an instructional aid for those in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, as well as a reference for scholars interested in learning more about collective responsibility.
Sharing Responsibility
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Author : Larry May
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-06
Sharing Responsibility written by Larry May and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06 with Philosophy categories.
Are individuals responsible for the consequences of actions taken by their community? What about their community's inaction or its attitudes? In this innovative book, Larry May departs from the traditional Western view that moral responsibility is limited to the consequences of overt individual action. Drawing on the insights of Arendt, Jaspers, and Sartre, he argues that even when individuals are not direct participants, they share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities.
A Theory Of Collective Intentions With Moral And Legal Applications
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Author : James A. E. Macpherson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
A Theory Of Collective Intentions With Moral And Legal Applications written by James A. E. Macpherson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Abstract: It has been claimed that when a number of people make a decision to do something together, they form a single intention - an intention that they share. This dissertation focuses on this notion of a shared intention. First, I present a novel account of shared intentions in terms of a commitment that is distributed amongst a number of people. My account makes the way in which an intention is shared less mysterious than alternative accounts and also allows for a simpler and more natural view of the way in which shared intentions are formed. Second, I show that shared intentions are often confused with a related phenomenon - proxy intentions, which are intentions had by one agent on behalf of another - and I develop an account of proxy intentions. Finally, I consider the implications of both accounts for a number of related topics. For one, while others have claimed that moral obligations are constitutive of shared intentions, I argue that there is merely a contingent relationship between the two - a relationship that depends upon a causal responsibility for harm. I also argue that my account of proxy intentions has clear implications for both moral and legal conceptions of collective responsibility, as it implies that if we hold an individual responsible for an action that he or she committed qua member of a group, that undermines the basis for holding the group responsible as well. Lastly, I show that the distinction between shared and proxy intentions has interesting implications for the topic of legislative interpretation. I argue that legislative intentionalism - the view that legislation should be interpreted in accordance with the intentions of legislatures - is indefensible, as legislatures almost never share intentions that can be useful for interpretation. Instead, I defend a related view on which legislation should be interpreted in accordance with the intentions of the proxy groups that commonly write legislation.
What Responsibility Whose Responsibility
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Author : Bhaskarjit Neog
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-27
What Responsibility Whose Responsibility written by Bhaskarjit Neog and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-27 with Philosophy categories.
This book is an enquiry into the meaning and nature of collective responsibility. It analyses the moral culpability of collective entities implicated in some of the most pressing contemporary ethical issues, including institutional injustice, corporate scams, organized crimes, gang wars, genocide, xenophobia, and other group-based violence. It asks: Who is responsible when a collective is (held) responsible? Is collective responsibility merely a façon de parler, a rhetorical way of talking about individual moral responsibility, or is it more than that? Using some of the latest resources from the philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and social ontology, the author develops a nuanced non-individualist position with the help of a concept of collective agency. He interprets collective responsibility as the responsibility of a collective without either reducing it to the responsibility of the individual members or making it a case where their moral positions become blurred. An important intervention in moral philosophy, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of moral philosophy, philosophy of action and mind, philosophy of social sciences, and political philosophy. It will also be a theoretical resource for legal theorists, just war theorists, game theorists, business ethicists, and policy makers.
Collective Responsibility
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Author : Gregory F. Mellema
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-15
Collective Responsibility written by Gregory F. Mellema and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
Groups of people are commonly said to be collectively responsible for what has happened. Sometimes the groups claimed to be responsible are vast in size, as when collective responsibility is ascribed to the class of all Americans or the class of all white males. In this book the concept of collective responsibility is analyzed. It is examined not only in the light of what philosophical proponents (such as Cooper, Held, Bates, French, Swinburne, and May) have said about it, but a genuine attempt is made to make sense of what ordinary people say about responsibility when it is ascribed to groups of people. Accordingly, it is distinguished from related concepts such as shared responsibility and moral taint. Parallels are examined between the actions of an individual and the actions of a group or collective, parallels which seem to make ascriptions of collective responsibility more plausible. Some philosophers oppose collective responsibility and argue for an individualist type of position; in this regard the positions of Lewis and Sverdlik are critically examined. The final chapter contains the author's own position, a position which affirms that collective responsibility is possible but which also preserves some of the central intuitions of the individualist.
The Routledge Handbook Of Collective Intentionality
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Author : Marija Jankovic
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-02
The Routledge Handbook Of Collective Intentionality written by Marija Jankovic and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with Philosophy categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.
Collective Responsibility
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Author : Larry May
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1992-10-27
Collective Responsibility written by Larry May and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-27 with Political Science categories.
This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And is some group to blame and, if so, how is blame to be apportioned? Contributors:
Moral Responsibility In Collective Contexts
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Author : Tracy Isaacs
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-06-10
Moral Responsibility In Collective Contexts written by Tracy Isaacs and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-10 with Philosophy categories.
Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts is a philosophical investigation of the complex moral landscape we find in collective scenarios such as genocide, global warming, organizational negligence, and oppressive social practices. Tracy Isaacs argues that an accurate understanding of moral responsibility in collective contexts requires attention to responsibility at the individual and collective levels.
Collective Moral Responsibility
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Author : Allyson Rudolph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Collective Moral Responsibility written by Allyson Rudolph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Conduct of life categories.
What is collective moral responsibility? And why should you care? The answer to the former, like any good philosophical question, is largely unresolved. Although writing on collective responsibility has flourished, particularly in the wake of the Holocaust, and despite the existence of an increasingly consistent bibliography of essential writings in the field, there is no definitive authority on the subject. Unlike individual moral responsibility, however, there is little consensus among the ranks. Many theories disclaim the existence or the possibility of collective moral responsibility - a group is just not the sort of thing that can ever be considered a morally responsible agent. No one, they claim, can present a coherent theory of group action that would allow collectives to be admitted into the moral realm. And that is why you should care about collective responsibility. You interact with collectives every day. You are part of groups, you act cooperatively, and you exist within a community. If it is possible to define "group" in a morally coherent way, wouldn't you want to know? In this paper, I set out to do just that - define "group" in a way that allows for moral accountability. I begin by looking at moral responsibility broadly, setting out requisites for moral agency. In the first chapter, I will argue that moral responsibility requires causality, awareness, intention, and volition, and that moral responsibility may be meted out in degrees. Once the basic requirements for assigning moral responsibility are set out, I address three kinds of groups, and attempt to offer models for understanding the moral responsibility of each. I start with institutions - things like businesses and armies - and argue that an institution may be (and ought to be) considered a singular moral agent. From there I move to small groups of individuals united by a shared situation, which I call situational collections. Unable to construe situational collections as singular moral agents, I set out a model for understanding the actions of these groups in terms of shared cooperative activity and shared individual responsibility. Finally, I address issues like racism, in which group members are united by shared attitudes. I present a model for understanding these shared attitude communities in terms of blame: when blaming a shared attitude community, one is actually assessing the responsibility to the community itself, as well as the individual community members both because of the attitudes they hold and because of their complicity in creating an environment in which material harm or reasonable fear are likely. I conclude all of these discussions by arguing that there are actually a few models of collective responsibility that allow for groups to operate within the moral realm, but that the real ramification of admitting more members to the moral community is greater responsibility for individuals. Individuals within institutions ought to take responsibility for their own individual actions, and individuals outside of institutions should be vigilant in demanding that immoral institutions change their ways. Members of situational collections must consider their own individual moral responsibilities and work cooperatively to achieve a morally acceptable outcome. Persons who hold attitudes that contribute to harm must take responsibility for their beliefs in radical ways and engage in self-reflection and deep personal change. Each of the models of collective responsibility I present below is in many ways a call for personal reflection on individual interactions with groups and other moral actors.