ABSTRACT
In Chapters 5 and 6, I apply the non-reductionist methodological approach to institutionalised group agency and individual agency. This approach relaxes the economic rationality of agency and points to other equally important public reason aspects of agency which may be nurtured, for example, by education, free media, and democratic participation and representation. The central and most important purpose of the following two chapters is to examine whether the non-reductionist methodological approach to agency allows for a framework in which institutionalised groups are fit to be held morally responsible for climate change. I apply my fact-sensitive account of moral responsibility in which the fitness-conditions are normatively significant choice, sufficient knowledge, and control over the choice. Chapter 5 investigates the two first conditions about the choice and knowledge, and Chapter 6 examines the control condition.
