The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible only for their contribution to the act? Are individuals responsible for actions done by their group even when they don-t contribute to the outcome? Can a corporation or institution be held morally responsible apart from the responsibility of its members?
The Handbook-s 35 chapters-all appearing here for the first time and written by an international team of experts-are organized into four parts:
Part I: Foundations of Collective Responsibility
Part II: Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility
Part III: Domains of Collective Responsibility
Part IV: Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility
Each part begins with a sh
