The project explores how various "persons of responsibility" affect our notions and our practices of responsibility. In particular, the research team will examine different agents and patients that feature in the relations of responsibility (who is responsible and to whom is one responsible). This is motivated by the fact that very often, responsibility is explored in an excessively anthropocentric and merely individualistic manner: first, accounts of responsibility often exclude the possibility of animals, artificial intelligence or other artificial persons, or of divine beings entering the picture; secondly, researchers often forget about vicarious responsibility, strict responsibility, and collective responsibility, which are genuine kinds of moral or legal responsibility.The present project is innovative in its perspective, because it takes into consideration also non-human persons of responsibility and steps beyond strictly individualistic notions of responsibility.