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Responsibility Voids and Cooperation
Do responsibility voids exist? That is, are there situations in which the group is collectively morally responsible for some outcome although no member can be held individually morally responsible for it? To answer these questions, I draw a distinction between competitive and cooperative decision co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30369648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393118767084 |
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description | Do responsibility voids exist? That is, are there situations in which the group is collectively morally responsible for some outcome although no member can be held individually morally responsible for it? To answer these questions, I draw a distinction between competitive and cooperative decision contexts based on the team-reasoning account of cooperation. Accordingly, I provide a reasoning-based analysis of cooperation, competition, moral responsibility, and, last, potential responsibility voids. I then argue that competitive decision contexts are free of responsibility voids. The conditions for the existence of responsibility voids in cooperative decision contexts depend on the type of uncertainty the group faces, either external or coordination uncertainty. |
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spelling | pubmed-61872522018-10-24 Responsibility Voids and Cooperation Duijf, Hein Philos Soc Sci Articles Do responsibility voids exist? That is, are there situations in which the group is collectively morally responsible for some outcome although no member can be held individually morally responsible for it? To answer these questions, I draw a distinction between competitive and cooperative decision contexts based on the team-reasoning account of cooperation. Accordingly, I provide a reasoning-based analysis of cooperation, competition, moral responsibility, and, last, potential responsibility voids. I then argue that competitive decision contexts are free of responsibility voids. The conditions for the existence of responsibility voids in cooperative decision contexts depend on the type of uncertainty the group faces, either external or coordination uncertainty. SAGE Publications 2018-03-29 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6187252/ /pubmed/30369648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393118767084 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Responsibility Voids and Cooperation |
title_full | Responsibility Voids and Cooperation |
title_fullStr | Responsibility Voids and Cooperation |
title_full_unstemmed | Responsibility Voids and Cooperation |
title_short | Responsibility Voids and Cooperation |
title_sort | responsibility voids and cooperation |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30369648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393118767084 |
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