This article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. The article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...

Abstract Organizational wrongdoing is still very much prevalent in today’s society. Traditional and social media are full of examples organizations engaging unethical or illegal behavior. While it difficult – if not impossible to establish whether the ever-increasing number reported cases due an actual increase phenomenon (objectivist view wrongdoing) more attention being paid (social-construct...

Collective moral agents can cause their own incapacity. If an agent is morally incapacitated, then the exempted from responsibility. Due to self-induced incapacity, corporate responsibility gaps resurface. To solve this problem, I first set out and defend a minimalist account of competence for group agents. After setting how collective its argue that temporary exempting conditions do not free d...

With supplement funding to the Washington University CTSA, the Restoring Professionalism and Integrity in Research (RePAIR) program was developed at Saint Louis University to meet the remediation needs of institutions nationwide regarding investigators who violate research regulations. With the aim of determining the frequency and kinds of wrongdoing at leading research institutions in the Unit...

Implicit in feminist and other critiques of ideal theorizing is a particular view of what normative theory should be like. Although I agree with the rejection of ideal theorizing that oppression theorists (and other theorists of justice) have advocated, the proposed alternative of nonideal theorizing is also problematic. Nonideal theorizing permits one to address oppression by first describing ...