Description du projet
Mettre en lumière la responsabilité individuelle dans les préjudices systémiques
De nombreux dommages systémiques sont causés et maintenus collectivement, comme dans l’exemple du changement climatique. Ils sont généralement involontaires et ne peuvent être interrompus, même par une action unilatérale. L’une des questions clés des dommages systémiques est de savoir si les individus peuvent être tenus responsables de les avoir causés ou même de les maintenir, ou si la responsabilité doit rester collective. Le projet CIRICC, financé par l’UE, vise à examiner comment les individus peuvent être tenus pour responsables des dommages systémiques causés collectivement. Il étudiera également les moyens, et aussi les cas, dans lesquels un collectif devrait être tenu pour responsable.
Objectif
"The project ""Complicity: Individual Responsibility in Collective Contexts"" (CIRICC) sets out to explain how and in what ways individuals can be held responsible for systemic harms caused by collective action. The three objectives are to 1) elucidate the concept of collective responsibility, to 2) offer the first in-depth theory of how being a constituent of an unstructured collective can affect our moral agency, and to 3) create a new methodology for looking at how ignorance and knowledge affect our responsibility in collective settings.
These objectives give rise to three research themes, each represented by an overarching research question: (RT1) What is collective responsibility? (RT2) How can an individual be responsible for systemic harms and wrongs? (RT3) How do ignorance and knowledge affect our social norms and our responsibility in collective settings? For added practical relevance, these questions will be discussed through three cases studies that draw from complex real-life cases. These are which agents have a responsibility to take action on climate change mitigation, consumer complicity for the use of sweatshop labour in the global supply chains, and the impact of media corporations on certain harmful social norms. CIRICC will advance research in these areas through four peer-reviewed articles and a book proposal, as well as a two-day international workshop on individual responsibility and collective harms.
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MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinateur
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
Finlande