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    Challenges→The ability of individuals to control actions or harms is not a necessary criterion for collective moral responsibility.

    H.D. Lewis's methodological individualism holds that only individual persons are genuine moral agents, making group-level responsibility a category error unless reducible to individual agency.

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    Key Terms

    Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
    Group-level responsibility(what Lewis questions)
    The idea that a group, organization, or society as a whole can be blamed or praised for something—separate from what any individual member did.
    H.D. Lewis(the philosopher being referenced)
    A 20th-century British philosopher who studied questions about the mind, religion, and how we assign responsibility for actions.
    Moral agents(as used in ethics)
    People or entities capable of understanding right and wrong, making choices based on moral principles, and being held responsible for their actions.
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    Able to be broken down into or explained using simpler parts; when something complicated can be shown to just be made of something simpler.
    methodological individualism(Elster's Weberian formulation, emphasizing intentional action)
    The view that social institutions and social change are to be explained by showing how they arise as the result of the actions and interactions of individuals

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