ABSTRACT
The kinds of collective intentions that are required by the prevailing notion of collective moral responsibility are notoriously difficult to locate. This chapter underscores the difficulties that arise when the most compelling notions of collective intentions make sense of collective moral responsibility. It also suggests that the assumption on collective moral responsibility is akin to its individualist, Kantian and Counterpart. The chapter develops an alternative, non-Kantian, notion of collective moral responsibility on the basis of the nature of group moral blameworthiness and sketches the kind of collective intentions that it requires. Hence, while their notions of a collective self and a collective intention satisfy the requirements of some other kinds of projects, they do not satisfy the requirements of the project of collective moral responsibility. Collective moral responsibility is defeated only if the kind of moral blameworthiness-and hence the kind of collective intentions-that are necessary or are the only ones available.
