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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: We often find ourselves acting in concert with others, where what we do together goes beyond the causal contribution of any single participant. When a collection of individuals works together in a way that results in a wrongful harm, it’s intuitive to think that each of the participants should be held accountable. Yet this intuition needs to be squared with the fact that no single individual’s contribution was causally necessary for the wrongful harm to have occurred. Hence there’s a range of views about “collective responsibility” that posit group agents and collective intentions.In Authority, Co...