Utilitarianism is the idea that ethics is ultimately about what makes people's lives go better.
While utilitarian ideas remain highly influential in politics and culture, they are subject to …

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can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something …

Some of the most invidious injustices are seemingly the results of impersonal workings of
rigged social structures. Who bears responsibility for the injustices perpetrated through …

Groups behave in a variety of ways. To show that this behavior amounts to action, it would
be best to fit it into a general account of action. However, nearly every account from the …

who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act
together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are …

Humans are prone to producing morally suboptimal and even disastrous outcomes out of
ignorance. Ignorance is generally thought to excuse agents from wrongdoing, but little …

In this paper, I argue that certain social-identity groups—ones that involve systematic
relations of power and oppression—have distinctive epistemic reasons in virtue of …

Pattern-based reasons are reasons for action deriving not from the features of our own
actions, but from the features of the larger patterns of action in which we might be …

This chapter argues that collectivist duties do not significantly affect our individual
obligations in certain important coordination problems. These are moral high stake versions …

There is a widely accepted distinction between being directly responsible for a wrongdoing
versus being somehow indirectly or vicariously responsible for the wrongdoing of another …