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The blameworthiness of wholes and the moral responsibility of parts

Stephanie Collins: Organizations as wrongdoers: from ontology to morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 208 pp, $80 HB

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Baker, J. The blameworthiness of wholes and the moral responsibility of parts. Metascience (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-00967-9

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