Life in Groups

How We Think, Feel, and Act Together

Margaret Gilbert (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284715-7 (ISBN)

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Life in Groups develops and applies Margaret Gilbert's influential perspective on topics to do with joint commitment: collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and preference; group lies and corporate misbehavior; remorse and other emotions; rights, obligations, and freedom.

Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together develops and applies the author's perspective on topics she relates to joint commitment. This kind of commitment unifies those who participate in it, guides their actions going forward, and determines their relations to one another in important ways. In particular, it grounds in each of the parties a set of rights and obligations of a central kind. This volume contains thirteen essays, together with a substantial introduction, which serves both to explain joint commitment for those unfamiliar with it and to advance discussion in light of some questions it has prompted, and a reflective conclusion. The essays range over collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and collective preference; group lies and corporate misbehavior; remorse and other emotions in a group context; rights, obligations, and freedom.

A leading figure in the philosophy of the social world, Margaret Gilbert has regularly applied her ideas in that area to significant problems in moral, political and legal philosophy, and her work has been influential in such fields as developmental psychology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been awarded the Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she will be president of the Pacific branch of the American Philosophical Association in 2023-4.

Introduction
1: The Nature of Agreements: A Solution to Some Puzzles about Claim-Rights and Joint Intention
2: Culture as Collective Construction.
3: Joint Commitment and Collective Belief
4: Belief, Acceptance, and What Happens in Groups: Some Methodological Considerations
5: Collective Belief, Kuhn, and the String Theory Community
6: Group Lies---and Some Related Matters
7: Collective Remorse
8: How We Feel: Understanding Collective Emotion Ascriptions
9: Collective Preferences, Obligations, and Rational Choice
10: Corporate Misbehavior and Collective Values
11: Can a Wise Society Be a Free One?
12: Regarding A Theory of Political Obligation
13: Giving Claim-Rights Their Due
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	682 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-284715-5 / 0192847155
ISBN-13	978-0-19-284715-7 / 9780192847157
Zustand	Neuware