Joint Responsibility Without Individual Control: Applying the Explanation Hypothesis

Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy

Volumn 27, Issue , 2011, Pages 181-199

  Björnsson, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collective Responsibility; Moral Responsibility; Motivational Structure; Normative Expectation; Outcome Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101517030     PISSN: 13876678     EISSN: 22150323     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1878-4_11     Document Type: Chapter

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