University of Essex
School of Philosophy and Art History
PhD, 2019
Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    This study in applied ethics addresses whether the ontology of corporations as rights-bearing artificial legal persons allows them to be held morally responsible as unitary entities and members of the moral community, or if their status requires ascription of moral responsibility to reduce to their individual participants. I argue that moral responsibility is ascribable to corporations not on the basis of their agency as metaphysical natural persons but as irreducible non-agential intentional sy…Read more