Collective Entities and Morality
This page lists my papers on issues about the moral status of collective entities, including papers on "collective responsibility" and papers on related issues in action theory. Papers on related topics can be found among my essays in Political Philosophy. If a PDF of a paper is password protected, the password is "copp".
- 2012: "The Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis: Reply to Ludwig and Miller,"Journal of Social Philosophy, 43, forthcoming.
- 2010: “Corrective Justice as a Duty of the Political Community: David Lyons on the Moral Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow,” Boston University Law Review, 90, pp. 1731-1754.
- 2007: “The Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 38, pp. 369-388.
- 2006: “On the Agency of Certain Collective Entities: An Argument from ‘Normative Autonomy’,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 30, pp. 194-221.
- 1991: "Responsibility for Collective Inaction", Journal of Social Philosophy, 22, pp. 71-80.
- 1986: Review of Collective and Corporate Responsibility by Peter A. French, in Ethics , 96, pp 636-638.
- 1984: "What Collectives Are: Agency, Individualism and Legal Theory", Dialogue, 23, pp 249-269.
- 1980: "Hobbes on Artificial Persons and Collective Actions", The Philosophical Review, 89, pp 579-606.
- 1979: "Collective Actions and Secondary Actions", American Philosophical Quarterly, 16, pp 177-186.
