Causation, Foresight and Collective Responsibility

Analysis 48 (1):44 - 50 (1988)
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Abstract

This essay identifies and examines three theses about collective responsibility which are frequently assumed or presupposed in philosophical discussions of collective responsibility. While the first thesis places constraints upon what counts as collective responsibility in a way which is plausible and defensible, It is argued that the constraints placed by theses two and three are unreasonably limiting

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