Collective Responsibility Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics

Abstract

Part 1 Conceptual issues: collective responsibility (a critique) H.D. Lewis collective responsibility - a defense, Joel Feinberg morality and collective liability, Howard McGary collective responsibility (another defense), D.E. Cooper collective responsibility (a reply to Cooper), R.S. Downe can a random collection of individuals be morally responsible?, Virginia Held the responsibility of random collections (a reply to Held), Stanley Bates. Part 2 Applications: why corporations are not morally responsible for anything they do, Manuel Velasquez the corporation as a moral person, Peter French ethical responsibilities of engineers in large organizations - the Pinto case, Richard T. De George collective responsibility and the nursing profession, James Muyskens conduct and responsibilty in war, Richard Wasserstrom guilt and responsibility, Kurt Baier racism and moral pollution, Anthony Applah metaphysical guilt and moral taint, Larry May measuring responsibility, A. Zvie Bar-on organized guilt and moral responsibility, Hannah Arendt.

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