Research Catalog

Title

Collective responsibility : five decades of debate in theoretical and applied ethics / edited by Larry May and Stacey Hoffman.

Publication

Savage, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1991], ©1991.

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Additional Authors

• May, Larry.
• Hoffman, Stacey.

Description

viii, 292 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in social & political philosophy

Uniform Title

Studies in social & political philosophy.

Subject

• Responsibility
• Social ethics
• Applied ethics
• Collectieve verantwoordelijkheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-290).

Contents

1. Collective responsibility (a critique) / H.D. Lewis -- 2. Collective responsibility (a defense) / David E. Cooper -- 3. Collective responsibility (a reply to Cooper) / R.S. Downie -- 4. Collective responsibility (another defense) / Joel Feinberg -- 5. Morality and collective liability / Howard McGary -- 6. Can a random collection of individuals be morally responsible? / Virginia Held -- 7. The responsibility of 'Random Collections' (a reply to Held) / Stanley Bates -- 8. Why corporations are not morally responsible for anything they do / Manuel Velasquez -- 9. The corporation as a moral person / Peter A. French -- 10. Ethical responsibilities of engineers in large organizations : the Pinto case / Richard T. De George -- 11. Collective responsibility and the nursing profession / James Muyskens -- 12. Conduct and responsibility in war / Richard Wasserstrom -- 13. Guilt and responsibility / Kurt Baier -- 14. Racism and moral pollution / Anthony Appiah -- 15. Metaphysical guilt and moral taint / Larry May -- 16. Measuring responsibility / A. Zvie Bar-on -- 17. Organized guilt and universal responsibility / Hannah Arendt.

ISBN

• 0847676919 (alk. paper)
• 9780847676910 (alk. paper)
• 0847676927 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 9780847676927 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

91016441

OCLC

• ocm23765686
• 23765686
• SCSB-5485813

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries