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Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible Without Being Causally Responsible?
A Way to Address the Climate Crisis
In my dissertation, I argue that corporations should respond proactively to climate change because they can make a positive impact and, under any major ethical theory, they have a responsibility to help. I provide a theory of corporate moral responsibility that works in the context of long-term structural topics like climate change. Most current theories of responsibility focus on prior causality and blameworthiness. These current theories fail to adequately explain corporation's responsibility to act proactively on issues like climate change. Instead, I focus on forward-looking responsibility as an explanation for corporations' responsibility to act. In doing so, I show how we can derive a strengthened form of forward-looking responsibility from any of the major ethical theories.
You can view a full copy of my dissertation here.
You can view a full copy of my dissertation here.