Collective Responsibility for the Future University College Dublin 15-16 June 2015 Jointly organised by: the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland and the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, USA Keynote speakers: Simon Caney (Oxford) The Collective Duty to Resist Injustice and to Create Just Institutions Philip Pettit (Princeton University/ANU) Incorporating for Responsibility Collectives sometimes unjustly harm people, either intentionally or by accident. Scholars and laypersons increasingly discuss whether and how they can be considered responsible for these wrongs, and what, if anything, those collectives should then do. Some have suggested various forms of reparations, commemoration, or memorialization. However, the most important lesson to be learned from any instance of historic injustice should be preventing such things from happening again. Since collectives are in a position to cause great harms, and may have significant resources, they may have prospective responsibilities to invest in moral, political, and social safeguards against injustice. Responsibility as such is a complex issue. It is difficult to identify clearly the relevant criteria for causal and moral responsibility (backwards-looking responsibility) and any rectificatory duties that follow from this. It is no easier to determine who has prospective responsibilities with regard to any particular issue, and under which circumstances. Finally, we also need to determine the relevant justifications for allocating remedial responsibility for addressing problems that concern society, irrespective of who or what had been their cause. Discussing these questions in the context of collectives rather than individuals adds a further layer of complexity. To what extent either of these can be conceived in collective terms is a matter of debate. Even if this were agreed, it remains to be considered upon which collectives such responsibilities fall and how responsibilities are distributed between collectives and individuals. This conference will be a forum for presenting recent scholarship on whether, why, how, and what kinds of responsibilities collectives might have with regard to the future. This conference is organised jointly by UCD SPIRe and the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Centre for Ethics, Georgia State University. It is made possible by support from UCD College of Human Sciences, Georgia State University, UCD Research Seed Funding Scheme 2015, and UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

Confirmed speakers and paper titles: Farid Abdel‐Nour Political Science Department, San Diego State University Realism about Agency and Collective Responsibility for the Future Andy Altman Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University Terrorism and International Law: The Problem of Targeted Killing Saba Bazargan Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego Collective Responsibility as Outsourced Agency Brandon Byrd Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University The Mirage of Collective Moral Responsibility Sara Rachel Chant Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University Minding Collective Responsibility Stephanie Collins and Holly Lawford‐Smith Politics, University of Manchester Collectives’ and Individuals’ Obligations: A Parity Argument Toni Erskine School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra ‘Coalitions of the Willing’ and the Shared Responsibility to Protect Avigail Ferdman and Jasmina Nedevska School of Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Collective Responsibility for the Cultural and Intellectual Environments of Future Generations: Balancing Current and Future Interests Stephen M. Gardiner Department of Philosophy, University of Washington Accepting Collective Responsibility for the Future Eric S. Godoy Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute Climate Change and Responsibilizable Collectives John Hasnas McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University Should Corporations Have the Right to Vote?: A Paradox in the Theory of Corporate Moral Agency Marcus Hedahl Department of Leadership, Ethics, Law, United States Naval Academy

Owing It to Us: How Directed Duties to Collectives Can Inform Collective Duties to Future Generations Robert Jubb Department of Politics, University of Leicester Citizen’s Complicity in State Wrongs Elizabeth Kahn School of Government and international Affairs, Durham University Negative Collectivization Duties and Securing Social Justice Simo Kyllönen Department of Political and Economic Studies/Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki Climate Change and Collective Responsibilities of Unstructured Groups of Emitters Lai Ma School of Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin Collective Responsibility in the Digital Age Maeve McKeown Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt Reparations for Caribbean Slavery: Combining Forward-looking and Backward‐ looking Responsibilities Sze Yi Pao (Amy Pao) Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong Citizen Liability for State Injustice—the Authorization Model Avia Pasternak and Emily McTernan Department of Political Science, University College London Rioting and Civil Disobedience: A collective action analysis Nahshon Perez Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University Classifying Collective Responsibilities Fabian Schuppert Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast Unintentional Murder: Individual Freedom, Systemic Risk and Collective Outcome Responsibility Anne Schwenkenbecher Department of Philosophy, Murdoch University Collective Beneficence, Perfect and Imperfect Duties Marion Smiley Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University Collective Responsibility for Remedying Harm

Peter Stone Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin Responsibility and the Formation of Joint Intentions Allard Tamminga Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen Collective Obligations, Plans, and Individual Agency Isaac Taylor St. Anne's College, University of Oxford National Responsibility and Counter‐Terrorism

Bill Wringe Department of Philosophy, Bilkent University Non‐Agent Collectives, Forward‐Looking Collective Responsibilities, and Climate Change Alexa Zelletin School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin Responsibility, Democracy, and Climate Change

Conference website at: http://ethics.gsu.edu/2014/08/26/dublinconf/ where registration is now open. Registration is now open, and there are two early registration packages available until 30 April (with and without the conference dinner). Postgraduates and those without research funds can able to avail of a reduced conference only rate. For those who are interested, oncampus accommodation can also be booked through the registration site. Early booking is advised as space is limited.