Research Catalog

Title

Forward-looking collective responsibility / editors, Peter A. French, Arizona State University, Howard K. Wettstein, University of California, Riverside.

Publication

• Malden, MA : Wiley Periodicals, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• French, Peter A.
• Wettstein, Howard K.

Description

251 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

In normative political and social discourse it is often said that some collective or group of people morally ought to or is morally responsible to perform a certain action or bring about a certain outcome. One way such expressions are asserted is say that such collectives have a moral responsibility to do something going forward or from now on. This volume explores various aspects of the concept of forward-looking collective responsibility and its application. The 2006 Midwest Studies in Philosophy volume (Shared Intention and Collective Responsibility) concentrated primarily on collective responsibility for past actions and events. This volume serves as a companion piece to that volume by extending the philosophical discussion of collective responsibility and collective morality towards future collective action. It contains fifteen articles written by leading philosophers from around the world. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Midwest studies in philosophy ; volume xxxviii

Uniform Title

Midwest studies in philosophy v. 38.

Subject

• Responsibility
• Collective behavior
• Mass Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Future-looking collective responsibility : a preliminary analysis / Marion Smiley -- Forward-looking collective responsibility : a metaphysical reframing of the issue / Carol Rovane -- Historical memory as forward- and backward-looking collective responsibility / Linda Radzik -- Collective responsibility and collective obligation / Tracy Isaacs -- Joint moral duties / Anne Schwenkenbecher -- Small impacts and imperceptible effects : causing harm with others / Kai Spiekermann -- A plural subject approach to the responsibilities of groups and institutions / Ludger Jansen -- Essentially shared obligations / Gunnar Björnsson -- Beyond the sins of the fathers : responsibility for inequality / Derrick Darby and Nyla R. Branscombe -- War "in our name" and the responsibility to protest : ordinary citizens, civil society, and prospective moral responsibility / Neta C. Crawford -- From global collective obligations to institutional obligations / Bill Wringe -- What we together can (be required to) do / Felix Pinkert -- Because they can : the basis for the moral obligations of (certain) collectives / Kendy M. Hess -- The impact of corporate task responsibilities : a comparison of two models / Avia Pasternak -- Structural injustice and the distribution of forward-looking responsibility / Christian Neuhäuser.

ISBN

• 1119037344
• 9781119037347

OCLC

• 890757430
• SCSB-10831807

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library