Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0066613

Zusammenfassung

Organizational misconduct often stems not from bad motives, but from ignorance. For instance, silence of research departments about side effects delays the recalling of drugs. Lack of coordination between police departments hampers finding serial killers. Such ignorance is culpable if organizations could have known better. The project investigates what organizations have a duty to know, and which qualities help them to fulfil these duties. The research group approaches the question of organizational duties to know through the lens of vice epistemology, a branch of philosophy. An epistemic vice...