Oxford University Press (2011)
Authors |
|
Abstract |
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individuals that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behaviour of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable on the model of individual agents. Group Agency offers a new approach to that question and is relevant, therefore, to a range of fields from philosophy to law, politics, and the social sciences. Christian List and Philip Pettit argue that there really are group or corporate agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them, and that a proper approach to the social sciences, law, morality, and politics must take account of this fact. Unlike some earlier defences of group agency, their account is entirely unmysterious in character and, despite not being technically difficult, is grounded in cutting-edge work in social choice theory, economics, and philosophy.
|
Keywords | Agent (Philosophy Group identity Social choice Juristic persons |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Reprint years | 2013 |
Buy this book | $32.94 new (11% off) $33.98 used (8% off) $36.94 from Amazon Amazon page |
Call number | B105.A35.L57 2011 |
ISBN(s) | 9780199591565 0199591563 9780199679676 0199679673 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
No references found.
Citations of this work BETA
What is a (Social) Structural Explanation?Sally Haslanger - 2016 - Philosophical Studies 173 (1):113-130.
What Are Social Groups? Their Metaphysics and How to Classify Them.Brian Epstein - 2019 - Synthese 196 (12):4899-4932.
View all 376 citations / Add more citations
Similar books and articles
Constructivist and Ecological Modeling of Group Rationality.Gerald Gaus - 2012 - Episteme 9 (3):245-254.
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents – By Christian List & Philip Pettit. [REVIEW]Kendy M. Hess - 2012 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (2):165-167.
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, by Christian List and Philip Pettit. [REVIEW]Thomas H. Smith - 2012 - Mind 121 (482):501-507.
Group Agency, Responsibility, and Control.Anders Strand - 2013 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (2):201-224.
Joint Actions and Group Agents.Philip Pettit & David Schweikard - 2006 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (1):18-39.
Group Agency and Supervenience.Philip Pettit - 2006 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 (S1):85-105.
Group Agency and Overdetermination.David Killoren & Bekka Williams - 2013 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2):295-307.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2011-06-24
Total views
277 ( #38,062 of 2,498,570 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
26 ( #33,629 of 2,498,570 )
2011-06-24
Total views
277 ( #38,062 of 2,498,570 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
26 ( #33,629 of 2,498,570 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads