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Rowan Mellor

Assistant Professor in Philosophy (Value Theory) at Trinity College Dublin, working on the ethics of group action and joint obligation.

Oct 1, 2026

18:49
Is, is it up to all of us, or are there certain restrictions or limitations there?
18:54
Yeah, I think that's a great question.
18:55
Um, so I mean, if you look at it through the kind of lens that I've been trying to look at it with, there are these collectives with obligations, and I think it's really important to recognize that when you've got a collective with an obligation, the...
19:08
It's the task of the collective to do the reasoning and the deciding about what they're going to do.
19:12
That's how you engage with collective obligations.
19:15
Um, an individual can't do that for a collective.
19:17
It has to be done collectively.
21:23
W- so maybe s- explore some of those.

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