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Group Duties without Decision-Making Procedures
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3112-0673
2020 (English)In: Journal of Social Ontology, ISSN 2196-9655, E-ISSN 2196-9663, Vol. 6, no 1, p. 127-139Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

Stephanie Collins’ Group Duties offers interesting new arguments and brings together numerous interconnected issues that have hitherto been treated separately. My critical commentary focuses on two particularly original and central claims of the book: (1) Only groups that are united under a group-level decision-making procedure can bear duties. (2) Attributions of duties to other groups should be understood as attributions of “coordination duties” to each member of the group, duties to either take steps responsive to the others with a view to the group’s doing what is said to be its duty or to express willingness to do so. In support of the first claim, Collins argues that only groups that can make decisions can bear duties, and that the ability to make decisions requires the relevant sort of decision-making procedure. I suggest that both parts of this argument remain in need of further support. I furthermore argue that Collins’ account of coordination duties gets certain kinds of cases wrong, and suggest that attributions of duties to groups without decision-making procedures are more plausibly understood as attributing shared duties grounded in demands on the group’s members to care about the values at stake.

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2020. Vol. 6, no 1, p. 127-139
Keywords [en]
group duties, collective obligations, shared obligations, group abilities, group obligations
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Philosophy
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Practical Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184966DOI: 10.1515/jso-2020-0049OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-184966DiVA, id: diva2:1466384
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Swedish Research Council, 2015-01488Available from: 2020-09-11 Created: 2020-09-11 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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