Not in their name : are citizens culpable for their states' actions? /

There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states. Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how we should thin...

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Main Author: Lawford-Smith, Holly (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:New topics in applied philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Not In Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable For Their States' Actions?; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; 2: What is The State?; I. The Options; II. Citizen-Inclusive States; III. Membership: Location, Legal Status, Relations, Causal Contribution; IV. Membership: Normative Interaction, Duty Transferral; V. States as the Formal Apparatus of Governance; 3: Is the Citizen-Inclusive State an Agent?; I. Strong Accounts of Collective Agency; II. Moderate Accounts of Collective Agency; III. Weak Accounts of Collective Agency
  • IV. Collective Agency and Collective Moral AgencyV. Citizen-Inclusive States as Agents: The Upshot; 4: Is the Citizen-Exclusive State an Agent?; I. The Structure of the Citizen-Exclusive State; II. From Decision to Action (Intention and Implementation); III. Subordinates as Extended Minds; IV. Is the Citizen-Exclusive State an Agent?; V. Is the Citizen-Exclusive State a Moral Agent?; VI. Relationship between the Citizen-Exclusive State and Its Citizens; 5: Citizens' Culpability and Responsibility for States' Actions; Part One: Culpability; I. Citizens' Culpability for States' Actions
  • II. A Thought Experiment Three WaysIII. Responsibility for Weak Shared Agency; IV. One-Off and Episodic Agency, or, Culpability for Joint Action; V. Citizens are not Culpable for States' Actions; Part Two: Responsibility; VI. Commissioning, Coercion, Complicity; Commissioning; Coercion; Complicity; VII. Association, Benefiting, Privilege, Capacity; Association; Benefiting; Privilege; Capacity; VIII. A Note on Comparative Demandingness; IX. Citizen Responsibility in Summary; 6: Governmental Culpability; I. Collective Punishment: Some Clarifications
  • II. The Challenge: Group and Member CulpabilityIII. Corporations, Armies, Governments; IV. Collective Culpability and Distributed Punishment; V. Getting Members off the Hook; VI. Double-Counting Responsibility; 7: Conclusion; References; Index