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Group excuse from blameless ignorance

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Date
21/07/2022
Author
Brown, Jessica
Funder
The Leverhulme Trust
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B Philosophy (General)
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Abstract
We routinely treat groups, such as governments and corporations, as agents with beliefs and aims who are morally responsible for their actions. For instance, we might blame the government for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. If groups are morally responsible agents, then it’s plausible that they can have an excuse for wrongdoing from ignorance in just the way individuals can. For instance, a government might attempt to excuse its performance in the coronavirus pandemic by saying that it didn’t know how infectious the new variant was. In this paper, I assume that groups are morally responsible agents to develop an account of what it is for a group to have an excuse from blameless ignorance.
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Brown , J 2022 , ' Group excuse from blameless ignorance ' , Philosophical Topics , vol. 49 , no. 2 , pp. 1-16 . https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics202149212
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Philosophical Topics
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Non peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics202149212
ISSN
0276-2080
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics202149212
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Thanks to the Leverhulme Trust for a Major Research Fellowship to work on group responsibility.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25725

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