CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND JUDGMENT AGGREGATION

Frank Hindriks

Economics and Philosophy, 2009, vol. 25, issue 2, 161-177

Abstract: Paradoxical results concerning judgment aggregation have recently been invoked to defend the thesis that a corporate agent can be morally responsible for a decision without any of its individual members bearing such responsibility. I contend that the arguments offered for this irreducibility thesis are inconclusive. They do not pay enough attention to how we evaluate individual moral responsibility, in particular not to the role that a flawed assessment of the normative reasons that bear on the issue to be decided on play in this context. I go on to propose a method for distributing corporate responsibility to individual members within the judgment aggregation framework.

Date: 2009
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