Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts

• The book develops a theory of collective moral responsibility and a theory of individual responsibility in collective contexts and argues that both are necessary.
• Unlike other contributions to the literature n collective moral responsibility, the book includes feminist analysis and addresses contexts of oppression and wrongful social practice.
• In addition to talking about responsibility in a backward-looking sense, this book also examines the collective dimensions of the more forward-looking moral concept of obligation.
• The book engages extensively with and responds to the challenge that the concept of collective moral responsibility is flawed because it condemns some for the actions of others.

Readership: Philosophers, legal scholars, business or professional ethicists, political scientists, and social scientists interested in issues of responsibility, especially in collective scenarios.

Tracy Isaacs, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario

Contents
Introduction
Part One: Collective Moral Responsibility
1 Intentional Collective Action
2 Collective Moral Responsibility
3 Collective Guilt
Part Two: Individual Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts
4 Individual Responsibility for (and in) Collective Wrongs
5 Collective Obligation, Individual Obligation, and Individual Moral Responsibility
6 Individual Moral Responsibility in Wrongful Social Practice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index