Corporate agency and reduction

Philosophical Quarterly 39 (157):409-424 (1989)
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Abstract

Individual people are morally responsible. But can groups of people - corporations and nations, for example - be morally responsible as well? An affirmative answer has been defended by appealing to two criteria, here identified as the turnover test and the distribution test. The article argues for a Scotch verdict: neither criterion proves the point.

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