Collective Responsibility

Säde Hormio is an Academy Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her research focuses on shared and collective responsibility, such as questions about the role of individuals in changing social practices, or what we mean by the responsibility of collective agents. She is also interested in social epistemology, including institutional ignorance and knowledge.

Bill Wringe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University and Honorary Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. His research interests include collective agency and responsibility, with a particular focus on their significance for political philosophy. He is also interested in philosophical issues about of punishment and in philosophy of emotion, and especially in questions at the intersection of these areas.

Introduction.- The Moral Relevance of Intentions in Shared Action.- Artificial Moral Agents: Corporations and AI.- Collective Agents as Moral Actors.- Collective Responsibility: Types and Modes of Application.- Responsibility Magnets and Shelters in Institutional Action.- Governing the Corpopolis: Modern Firms as Political Communities.- Aristotle on Knowing What We're Doing Together. An Interpretation of NE 1169b f.- Duties to Promote Just Institutions and the Citizenry as an Unorganized Group.- High stake coordination problems - Do we need to reach beyond individual duties to solve them?.- From the Collective Obligations of Social Movements to the Individual Obligations of Their Members.- Social Movements and "Ally-ship".- Collective Agency and Structural Epistemic Injustice.