Team reasoning and collective moral obligation

We propose a new account of collective moral obligation. We argue that several agents can only have a moral obligation together if they each have (i) a context-specific capacity to regard their situation from the group’s perspective and (ii) at least a general capacity to deliberate about what they ought to do together. Such an obligation is irreducibly collective in that it doesn’t imply that the individuals have obligations to contribute to what is required of the group. We highlight distinct features of our account. One such feature is that moral obligations are always relative to an assumed agential perspective.