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Responsibility Voids and Cooperation.

¹Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

|October 30, 2018

Summary

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This study explores responsibility voids, where groups are morally responsible but no individual is. It finds competitive contexts lack these voids, while cooperative ones may have them depending on uncertainty.

Keywords:

cooperation practical reasoning responsibility voids team reasoning uncertainty

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Area of Science:

Moral Philosophy
Social Psychology
Decision Theory

Background:

The concept of collective moral responsibility is debated.
Understanding when individuals are not responsible, but groups are, is crucial for ethical frameworks.
Existing theories often struggle to account for situations without individual accountability.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if responsibility voids exist in group decision-making.
To differentiate between competitive and cooperative contexts regarding moral responsibility.
To analyze the conditions under which responsibility voids may arise.

Main Methods:

Distinguishing between competitive and cooperative decision contexts using team-reasoning.
Applying a reasoning-based analysis to cooperation, competition, and moral responsibility.
Examining the role of uncertainty in cooperative decision contexts.

Main Results:

Competitive decision contexts are argued to be free of responsibility voids.
The existence of responsibility voids in cooperative contexts is contingent on the type of uncertainty faced (external vs. coordination).
A framework is provided for understanding group moral responsibility.

Conclusions:

Responsibility voids can exist, specifically in cooperative decision contexts.
The presence of responsibility voids is linked to specific types of group uncertainty.
The findings have implications for theories of collective action and moral accountability.