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Isaacs (2011) Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts (5) Ch. 4

Isaacs, Tracy (2011). Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 4. Individual Responsibility for (and in) Collective WrongsThe view developed so far—that collective intention, collective action, and collective moral responsibility operate at the level of collectives—suggests that individuals are not responsible for collective actions as such. Specifically, it ..

Analytic/Ethcis 2025.02.16

Isaacs (2011) Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts (4) Ch. 3

Isaacs, Tracy (2011). Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3. Collective Guilt If collectives are the sorts of things that can be morally responsible, then there is a sense in which they can be guilty, too.“Guilt” is an ambiguous term, so let me begin by stating that I understand guilt as blameworthy moral responsibility. An agent is guilty when she or he..

Analytic/Ethcis 2025.02.16

Isaacs (2011) Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts (3) Ch. 2

Isaacs, Tracy (2011). Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  2 Collective Moral Responsibility In the previous chapter, I distinguished between two kinds of collectives capable of intentional action—organizations and goal-oriented collectives. I gave an account of their respective intentional structures as a means of giving substance to the claim that coll..

Analytic/Ethcis 2025.02.14

Isaacs (2011) Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts (1) Intro

Isaacs, Tracy (2011). Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.   1. Collective Wrongdoing, Collective Harm, Collective Solutions: Four CasesBoth the genocide in Rwanda and the mishandling of Canada’s blood supply for over a decade highlighted for me the need for an effective account of responsibility at the collective level, or at least an account that would ..

Analytic/Ethcis 2025.02.11