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1st Edition

Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Many Hands

By Ibo van de Poel, Lambèr Royakkers, Sjoerd D. Zwart Copyright 2015
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term is increasingly used to describe problems with attributing individual responsibility in collective settings in such diverse areas as public administration, corporate management, law and regulation,... Read more

Introduction Ibo van de Poel and Lambèr Royakkers  1. Moral Responsibility Ibo van de Poel  2. The Problem of Many Hands Ibo van de Poel  3: A Formalisation of Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Many Hands Tiago de Lima and Lambèr Royakkers  4. Responsibility and the Problem of Many Hands in Networks Sjoerd D. Zwart  5. A Procedural Approach to Distributing Responsibility Neelke Doorn  6. Responsibility as a Virtue and the Problem of Many Hands Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist  Conclusions: From Understanding to Avoiding the Problem of Many Hands Ibo van de Poel and Sjoerd D. Zwart

Biography

Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Lambèr Royakkers is Associate Professor in Ethics and Technology in the School of Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Sjoerd D. Zwart is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Technology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

"This book will be of use in its entirety to those who are concerned with practical issues of responsibility distribution in institutions, particularly institutions of a fairly technical nature." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Ibo van de Poel, Lambèr Royakkers, and Sjoerd D. Zwart have assembled the most comprehensive treatment yet of the problem of many hands, which has confounded assessments of individual responsibility in contexts of joint action and diffuse causality. Not only do they cogently capture the nature of this problem, both descriptively and formally, but they offer three compelling solutions to it, which should be of political as well as philosophical interest." – Steven Vanderheiden, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

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