Group motivation
Abstract
In this paper I discuss a key issue for group moral responsibility, namely whether we can make sense of a group acting for one reason rather than another. The notion of acting for one reason rather than another is central to standard accounts of individual agency and responsibility; and also determines whether an individual is blameworthy or praiseworthy for an action. Thus if we model group responsibility on individual responsibility, we need to be able to make sense of a group acting for one reason rather than another. In this paper, I raise problems for both summative and inflationary accounts of what it is for a group to act on a reason, before suggesting several potential solutions at the end.
Citation
Brown , J 2022 , ' Group motivation ' , Noûs , vol. 56 , no. 2 , 12366 , pp. 494-510 . https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12366
Publication
Noûs
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0029-4624Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Noûs published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This is part of a project on group responsibility funded by the Leverhulme Trust.Collections
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