CONTENTS

List of Contributors ix

Introduction 1

Deborah Tollefsen and Saba Bazargan-Forward

PART I

Foundations of Collective Responsibility 5

1 Types of Collectives and Responsibility 9

Peter A.

2 Collective Moral Responsibility and What Follows for Group Members 23 Margaret Gilbert and Maura Priest

3 Collective Moral Responsibility as Joint Moral Responsibility 38

Seumas Miller

4 What Sets the Boundaries of Our Responsibility?: Lessons from a

Reductionist Account of Individual Agency 51

Carol Rovane

5 A We-mode Account of Group Action and Group Responsibility 65

Raimo Tuomela and Pekka Makela

6 From Individual to Collective Responsibility: There and Back Again 78

Kirk Ludwig

7 Collective Obligations and the Point of Morality 94

David Copp

8 Assembling the Elephant: Attending to the Metaphysics of

Corporate Agents 113

Kendy M. Hess

9 Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligations Without

Collective Moral Agents 127

Gunnar Bjornsson

10 Collective Responsibility and Acting Together 142

Olle Blomberg and Frank Hindriks

PART II

Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility 155

11 Complicity and Collective Responsibility 159

Gregory Mellema

12 Radical Collective Responsibility and Plural Self-Awareness 171

Hans Bernhard Schmid

13 Commitments and Collective Responsibility 184

Caroline T Arruda

14 Collective Inaction and Collective Epistemic Agency 202

Michael D. Doan

15 Shared Responsibility and Failures to Prevent Harm 216

Shannon Fyfe

16 Collective Guilt Feelings 228

Bjorn Petersson

17 Collective Responsibility and Entitlement to Collective Reasons

for Action 243

Abraham Sesshu Roth

18 The Possibility of Collective Moral Obligations 258

Anne Schwenkenbecher

19 Individual Responsibility for Collective Action 274

Michael Skerker

20 Collective Responsibility and the Role of Narrative 285

Cassie Striblen

21 The Discursive Dilemma and Collective Responsibility 297

Andras Szigeti

22 Bystanders and Shared Responsibility 313

Linda Radzik

PART III

Domains of Collective Responsibility 327

23 Collective Responsibility and International Relations 331

Stephanie Collins

24 Competing Collective Values: Moral and Causal Responsibilities

in Health Care 347

Robin Downie

25 Collective Responsibility and Fraud in Scientific Communities 358

Bryce Huebner and Liam Kofi Bright

26 Collective Action and the Criminal Law 373

Christopher Kutz

27 Collective Responsibility in the State 388

Avia Pasternak

28 Shared Responsibility for Corporate Wrongdoing 401

Amy J. Sepinwall

29 Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Expectation of Autonomy 418

Jeffery Smith and Wim Dubbink

PART IV

Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility 431

30 Responsibility for Shared Action in War 433

Saba Bazargan- Forward

31 Collective Duties of Beneficence 447

Violetta Igneski

32 Are States Responsible for Climate Change in Their Own Right? 461

Holly Lawford-Smith and Anton Eriksson

33 Conspiracy Theories and Collective Responsibility 472

Juha Raikka

34 Enabling Collective Responsibility for Environmental Justice 486

Kenneth Shockley

35 Institutional Racism and Individual Responsibility 501

Michael O.

Index 513