Deborah Perron Tollefsen: Groups as Agents

Cover: 9780745684840 | Groups as Agents | Deborah Perron Tollefsen | Taschenbuch | 184 S.

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Beschreibung

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example that "Google intends to develop an automated car", "the U.S. Government believes that Syria has used chemical weapons on its people", or that "the NRA wants to protect the rights of gun owners". We also often ascribe legal and moral responsibility to groups. But could groups literally intend things? Is there such a thing as a collective mind? If so, should groups be held morally responsible? Such questions are of vital importance to our understanding of the social world.

In this lively, engaging introduction Deborah Tollefsen offers a careful survey of contemporary philosophers? answers to these questions, and argues for the unorthodox view that certain groups should, indeed, be treated as agents and deserve to be held morally accountable. Tollefsen explores the nature of belief, action and intention, and shows the reader how a belief in group agency can be reconciled with our understanding of individual agency and accountability.

Groups as Agents will be a vital resource for scholars as well as for students of philosophy and the social sciences encountering the topic for the first time.

Über den Autor

Deborah Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Group Belief

2. Group Intention

3. Group Agency

4. Group Cognition

5. Interpreting Groups

6. The Moral Responsibility of Groups

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	184 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745684840
ISBN-10:	074568484X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Tollefsen, Deborah Perron
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	220 x 137 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Deborah Perron Tollefsen
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.05.2015
Gewicht:	0,219 kg

Artikel-ID: 105021015