Sincere apologies for the delay of this message
Magdalena Smith
PhD Student in Philosophy
University of Cambridge
> READING GROUP ON JOINT ACTION AND JOINT RESPONSIBILITY
>
> Wednesdays, 12am to 1pm, Board Room, Philosophy Faculty, Sidgwick Site
>
> Following our discussion on Michael Bratman’s paper, focusing on the
> explanation of joint action in small, non-hierarchical groups, and Scott
> Shapiro, who
extends Bratman's framework to account for joint action in large,
hierarchically structured groups, we will now look at Christopher Kutz’s
approach to joint action, which seems less stringent in its demands as to
nesessary conditions for joint action. Kutz's approach, as presented in
chapter 3 of his Complicity, Ethics and Law for a Collective Age, will thereby
be the focus of our next meeting (6/11).
>
> Kutz's take on joint responsibility in part also differs from Bratman and
> Shapiro by virtue of the wider context in which it is meant to apply. His
> account of joint responsibility, and its intended purpose, is the
> underpinning of his moral philosophy based on individual accountability for
> harms brought about in part by others. A moral philosophy, in turn, motivated
> by the view that:
>
> ‘The most important and far-reaching harms and wrongs of contemporary life
> are the products of collective actions,
mediated by social and institutional structures. These harms and wrongs are
essentially collective products, and individual agents rarely make a difference
to their occurrence. So long as individuals are only responsible for the
effects they produce, then the result of this disparity between collective harm
and individual effect is the disappearance of individual accountability.’
>
> C. Kutz,(2000): Complicity, Ethics and
>Law for a Collective Age, Cambridge University Press, p.113
>
> Previously discussed papers:
> Bratman
(2013) "The Fecundity of Planning Agency", In: Oxford Studies in Agency and
Responsibility, Oxford University Press.
> Shapiro (2013) Legal Practice and Massively Shared Agency
>
> For our new attendants:
> Each session will be started by a short introduction. We will select reading
> for the weeks to come together in the reading group. Students and staff are
> all welcome, and we strongly encourage students from faculties other than
> philosophy to attend. Please feel free to bring lunch.
>
> Best,
> Marco and Magdalena
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