Mellor, R;
(2017)
What is Collective Responsibility?
Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis attempts to answer the following question; does an understanding of collective responsibility require different conceptual resources to those employed in an account of singular responsibility? I argue that the answer to this question can be ‘no’. I do so by assuming a particular theory of singular responsibility. I then argue that collective responsibility, in its various forms, is consistent with this theory. The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 presents the central problem of the thesis and gives a preliminary discussion of responsibility and plurals. In Chapter 2 I discuss two notions of collective responsibility; collective responsibility as several responsibility and collective responsibility as corporate responsibility. Chapter 3 discusses a third possible notion of collective responsibility; collective responsibility as plural responsibility. In Chapter 4 I present some cases in which collective responsibility as plural responsibility might occur.
| Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Title: | What is Collective Responsibility? |
| Event: | UCL |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Collective responsibility, collective action, collective agents, reasons |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1558320 |
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