What is it about?
This article establishes that a random collection of individuals may be non-distributively morally responsible for their actions.
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Why is it important?
If collective responsibility does not depend on the structure of groups, then it may be possible to generate a unified account of collective responsibility across a wide range of cases that ordinarily receive separate treatments.
Perspectives
The collective agency thesis emerges from a methodological mistake in modeling collectives after individuals. This article offers a counter example to the thesis and suggests that the methodology of collective action theory comes at a high cost.
Professor Sara Rachel Chant
Tulane University
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This page is a summary of: Collective Responsibility in a Hollywood Standoff, Thought A Journal of Philosophy, June 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/tht3.161.
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