Stephanie Collins. Organizations as Wrongdoers (2023)
And what about feelings of guilt, remorse, and shame—can organ izations experience these feelings in a phenomenological sense (not just their ‘functional equivalents’)—and why does this matter for organizations’ blameworthiness? [3]
In Part II (Chapters 4 and 5), I demonstrate that this metaphysical thesis yields important moral conclusions: organizations can be blame worthy for a wide range of actions, attitudes, and character traits (including those of members qua members) and organizations can literally feel guilt (when members feel guilt qua members). [4]