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Collectivities without Intention

This article partly overlaps with sections (i) and (ii) of Chapter Two ('Collective Self-interest, Collective Inaction, and Collective Harm') of Cripps' monograph ‘Climate Change and the Moral Agent’. The journal article includes an earlier version of the defence of the non-intentionalist model of collectivities which is found in the book chapter. However, unlike the book, the article also elaborates on the relationship between collectivities, aggregates and social groups, and defends the state as a collectivity. The monograph chapter, by contrast, goes on to elaborate on the relationship between risk and fundamental interests, and to defend a global level 'collectivity of humanity', including younger generations.