Responsibility voids

Matthew Braham; M.V.B.P.M van Hees

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.677.x

Responsibility voids

Matthew Braham^*, M.V.B.P.M van Hees

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We present evidence for the existence of 'responsibility voids' in committee decision-making, that is, the existence of situations where no member of a committee can individually be held morally responsible for the outcome. We analyse three types of reasons (causal, normative and epistemic) for the emergence of responsibility voids, and show that each of them can occur in committees. But the conditions for these voids are so restrictive as to reduce the philosophical or institutional significance they might be thought to possess.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6-15
Number of pages	10
Journal	The Philosophical Quarterly
Volume	61
Issue number	242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.677.x
Publication status	Published - Jan-2011

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