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Collins (2023) Organizations as Wrongdoers. From Ontology to Morality Ch. 4

Collins, Stephanie (2023). Organizations as Wrongdoers. From Ontology to Morality. Oxford: Oxford University. Varieties of Organizational Blameworthiness4.1 IntroductionThis book is titled Organizations as Wrongdoers. So far, I’ve said a lot about organizations, but not much about wrongdoing. The rest of the book changes that.The present chapter defends organizations’ blameworthiness through thr..

Collins (2018) The Government Should Be Ashamed: On the Possibility of Organisations' Emotional Duties

Collins, Stephanie (2018). The Government Should Be Ashamed: On the Possibility of Organisations' Emotional Duties. Political Studies 4 (66):813-829.1. IntroductionEmotional duties are regularly attributed to organisations. Here are some examples.In 2011, a media investigation exposed the abuse of patients at Winterbourne View hospital in England. Five years later, a parent of one of the patient..

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Kutz (2000) Complicity (6) Problematic Accountability: Facilitation, Unstructured Collective Harm, and Organizational Dysfunction

Kutz, Christopher (2000). Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.There is an important difference between expressing recrimination at an organization and expressing it at an individual. Individuals who are the subjects of response respond affectively, ideally (from the perspective of the victims) with shame and guilt, perhaps with resentment. But a..

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Kutz (2000) Complicity (4) Moral Accountability and Collective Action

Kutz, Christopher (2000). Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 4.1 IntroductionWe turn now to the central issue: individual moral accountability in the context of collective action. The most important and far-reaching harms and wrongs of contemporary life are the products of collective actions, mediated by social and institutional structures. Th..

Value Thoery/Ethcis 2025.04.28