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| Part I The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency | ||
| 1 | The Importance of Corporate Moral Agency | 5 |
| References | 8 | |
| 2 | Necessary Conditions for Moral Agency | 9 |
| References | 15 | |
| 3 | Corporate Intentions | 17 |
| 3.1 Explication of Peter French's Conception of Corporate | ||
| Moral Agency | 18 | |
| 3.2 | The Metaphysics of Intentions and Its Moral Relevance | 22 |
| References | 29 | |
| 4 | Corporate Actions | 31 |
| 4.1 | Are Corporate Agents Autonomous? | 34 |
| 4.2 | Free vs. Non-free Agents | 38 |
| 4.3 | Emergent Corporate Moral Agency? | 41 |
| References | 48 | |
| 5 | Corporate Autonomy | 51 |
| References | 55 | |
| 6 | Summary of Why Corporate Moral Agency Is a Fallacy | 57 |
| 6.1 | Autonomy | 57 |
| 6.2 | Intention | 58 |
| 6.3 | Action | 58 |
| Reference | 59 | |
| 7 The Reference of Corporate Proper Names | ||
| and Responsibility Attributions | 61 | |
| References | 71 | |
| 8 | Corporate Collective Moral Agency | 73 |
| 8.1 | Joint/Shared Intentions | 74 |
| 8.2 | Group/Corporate Intentions | 78 |
| 8.3 | Corporate Collective Intentions | 81 |
| References | 90 | |
| 9 Conclusion: Legitimate and Illegitimate Corporate Moral | ||
| Responsibility Attributions | 91 | |
| 9.1 | Moral Responsibility Attribution to a Collective Whole | 91 |
| 9.2 | Moral Responsibility Attribution to a Corporate Structure | 93 |
| 9.3 Moral Responsibility Attribution to a Unanimously | ||
| Intending Collective | 94 | |
| 9.4 Elliptical Moral Responsibility Attribution | ||
| to a Collective Whole | 97 | |
| References | 99 | |
| Part II The Role of the Corporation in Society | ||
| 10 | The Role of the Corporation in Society: The Descriptive View | 103 |
| 10.1 | The First Corporations | 104 |
| 10.2 | The Legal Debate About the Nature of the Corporation | 105 |
| 10.3 | The Shareholder Primacy Norm | 108 |
| 10.4 The Separation of the Corporation from | ||
| the Shareholders and the Emergence of the Corporate | ||
| Share as an Autonomous Form of Property | 118 | |
| 10.5 | The Limited Liability of Shareholders | 122 |
| 10.6 The Reification of the Corporation (and the Legal | ||
| Influence of the Theories About the Nature of the Corporation) | 128 | |
| 10.7 | The Corporation as Socio-economic Instrument | 136 |
| References | 140 | |
| 11 | The Role of the Corporation in Society: The Prescriptive View | 143 |
| 11.1 Ought the Corporate Legal Form to Be Used as | ||
| an Instrument of the State? | 144 | |
| 11.1.1 The Problem with the Descriptive Claims | ||
| of the Nexus-of-Contracts Theory | 145 | |
| 11.1.2 The Problem with the Libertarian Prescription | ||
| for Absolute Property Rights | 149 | |
| 11.2 The Wrong with the Corporate Social Responsibility | ||
| Movement | 157 | |
| 11.2.1 | The Philosophical Foundations of the CSR Movement | 157 |
| 11.2.2 | Shareholder Theory vs. CSR | 164 |
| 11.2.3 | The Rationality of the Shareholder Primacy Norm | 182 |
| 11.3 The Division Between Public and Private Corporate | ||
| Responsibilities | 185 | |
| 11.3.1 | The Public/Private Distinction | 186 |
| 11.3.2 | The Market as a Zone of Moral Exception | 192 |
| 11.3.3 | The Justification for State Regulation | 199 |
| 11.4 | Summary: The Role the Corporation Ought to Play in Society | 205 |
| References | 206 | |
| Conclusion | 209 | |
| Bibliography | 213 | |
