Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics / Edition 1

by Larry May Washington University, Stacey Hoffman

Overview

This anthology presents the best recent philosophical analyses of moral, political, and legal responsibility of groups and their members. Motivated by reflection on such events as the Holocaust, the exploding Ford Pintos, the My Lai massacre, and apartheid in South Africa, the essays consider two important questions: What collective efforts could have prevented these large-scale social harms? And is some group to blame and, if so, how is blame to be apportioned? Contributors:R.P. Lewis, Joel Feinberg, Howard McGary, D.E. Cooper, R.S. Downie, Virginia Held, Stanley Bates, Manuel Velasquez, Peter French, Richard T. DeGeorge, James Muyskens, Richard Wasserstrom, Kurt Bauer, Anthony Appiah, Larry May, A. Zvie Bar-on, and Hannah Arendt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847676927
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/27/1992
Series:	Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.76(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Larry May is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.Stacey Hoffman is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.

Editorial Reviews

There is a wealth of material here to stimulate reflection.

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review

The editors have assembled an interesting and useful collection on questions of considerable contemporary importance.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social

The editors have assembled an interesting and useful collection on questions of considerable contemporary importance.-- "Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy"

There is a wealth of material here to stimulate reflection.-- "Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review"

From the Publisher

The editors have assembled an interesting and useful collection on questions of considerable contemporary importance.

Ethics: An International Journal of Social

There is a wealth of material here to stimulate reflection.

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review

The editors have assembled an interesting and useful collection on questions of considerable contemporary importance.

Ethics

There is a wealth of material here to stimulate reflection.

Canadian Philosophical Reviews