Authority, cooperation, and accountability / Saba Bazargan-Forward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazargan-Forward, Saba, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Authority, co-operation, and accountability

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

We need a way to make sense of moral accountability in cases where multiple individuals are cooperating in a way that results in a wrongful harm. Saba Bazargan-Forward argues that distinct aspects of human agency can be 'distributed' among different people. He presents case studies of accountability in war, law, business, and racism.

Contents:

Cover

Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Introduction

Olympic Sabotage

PART I: THEORY

1: Divisions of Agential Labor

1.1 Function and Authority in a Division of Agential Labor

1.1.1 On Agentive Functions

1.1.2 Authority in an Interpersonal Division of Agential Labor

1.2 Autonomy in Divisions of Agential Labor

1.3 Conclusion

2: Authority-Based Accountability

2.1 Argument for Authority-Based Accountability

2.1.1 Whose Motivating Reasons?

Strategic Bomber

The Argument for Authority-Based Accountability

2.1.2 Are Protected Reasons Necessary for Authority-Based Accountability?

2.1.3 Implications for Executor Accountability

Performance Review

2.1.4 Authority-Based Accountability in Groups

The Bandits and the Beans⁷

2.1.5 Authority-Based Accountability Versus Ordinary Accountability

2.2 Contrast with Other Views

2.2.1 Abraham Roth

2.2.2 Christopher Kutz

2.3 Counterarguments and Arguments from Casuistry

2.3.1 Deontic Relevance of Motivating Reasons

Trolley 1

Trolley 2

2.3.2 Causally Inert Promises

Double Promise

2.3.3 Consequentialist Reasons to Cooperate in Wrongdoing

Baker's Dozen

2.3.4 Group-Size and Authority-Based Accountability

Conspiracy Choice

2.4 Conclusion

Conference Hike

3: Establishing a Division of Agential Labor

Drug Theft

3.1 Promises

3.1.1 Normative Power Views

3.1.2 Conventionalism

3.1.3 Expectationalism

3.1.4 Immoral Promises

3.2 Requests and Agreements

3.2.1 Requests

3.2.2 Agreements

3.3 Commitments in Shared Action

3.3.1 Margaret Gilbert

3.3.2 Michael Bratman

3.4 Conclusion

4: Imperfect Divisions of Agential Labor

4.1 Alienation

4.1.1 Alienated Executors

Hired Emails.

Nihilist Emails

4.1.2 Alienated Deliberators

Protégé Emails

Benefactor

Concerted Harassment 1

4.2 Coercion

4.2.1 Coercion and Accountability in General

4.2.2 Coerced Promises

Coercively Made Promises

Coerced Promise 1

Coerced Promise 2

Coerced Promise 3

Coercively Accepted Promises

Coerced Acceptance 1

Coerced Acceptance 2

Coerced Acceptance 3

4.2.3 Coercion in Cooperatively Committed Harm

Bigots 1

Bigots 2

4.3 Ignorance

4.3.1 Ignorant Executors and Ignorant Deliberators

Ignorant Executor

Ignorant Deliberator

Variant 1a

Variant 1b

Variant 1c

Variant 1d

4.3.2 Ignorance in Cooperatively Committed Harms

Ignorant Cooperative Action 1

Ignorant Cooperative Action 2

4.4 Conclusion

Summary of Part I

PART II: APPLICATIONS

5: War Ethics

5.1 Revisionism and Authority-Based Accountability in War

5.1.1 Revisionist Accounts of War Ethics

5.1.2 Cooperatively Committed Harms in War

5.1.3 Example of a Cooperatively Committed Harm in War

5.1.4 Challenges

5.2 Mitigating Conditions and Authority-Based Accountability in War

5.2.1 Ignorance in War

5.2.2 Alienation in War

5.2.3 Coercion in War

5.3 Conclusion

6: Accomplice Liability

Favored Son

6.1 Standard Account of Accomplice Liability

Guardian Devil

6.2 Superfluity of Complicity

6.2.1 'Complicity' as Non-Derivative Liability

Uncertain Murder 1

Uncertain Murder 2

6.2.2 Non-Derivative Liability and Reckless 'Complicity'

Race

6.3 Complicity and Authority-Based Accountability

6.3.1 The Re-Emergence of Complicity

Assassination Fund

6.3.2 Complicity as Vicarious Liability

6.4 Conclusion

7: Respondeat Superior and Enterprise Liability

7.1 Enterprise Liability as Grounds for Respondeat Superior

7.1.1 The Scope of Employment.

7.1.2 Occasioning vs. Aiding a Tort

7.2 Inadequacy of Attempts to Ground Respondeat Superior in Enterprise Liability

7.2.1 Assumption of Risk and Enterprise Liability

Camping Brushfire

Security Abuse

7.2.2 Causation and Enterprise Liability

Rehab Clinic

7.3 Authority-Based Accountability as a Solution

7.3.1 Duties of Care and Asymmetric Vulnerability

7.3.2 Reparative Duties and Conferring Duties of Care

7.4 Conclusion

8: Institutional Racism

8.1 Metaphysics of Racism

8.1.1 Non-Reductionist Accounts of Racism

8.1.2 Reductionist Accounts of Racism

8.2 Accountability for Institutional Racism

8.2.1 Implicated Employees

Racist Detainment

8.2.2 Relevance of Others' Intentions

Mountain Pass

8.2.3 Modal Tracking and Authority-Based Accountability

8.2.4 Alternative Explanations of Employee's Wrongdoing

8.3 Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix

Vertical Arrangements

Horizontal Arrangements

Hybrid Arrangements

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 7, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-195345-8

0-19-267657-1

0-19-267656-3