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Journal of Social OntologyWhen considering the type of agency that supports group activity, social ontologists often think of full-fledged moral and intentional agency. However, many organism-agents found in the biological sphere fail not only to be morally responsible but also ...
Joshua Rust
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The Ontology of Social Practices
Journal of Social Ontology, 2023 Although social practices are widely considered to be essential building blocks in the construction of our social world, there is not much of an agreement regarding what kind of entities they are and what constitutes their nature.
Miguel Garcia Godinez
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Interreligious Dialogue Groups Enabling Human Agency [PDF]
Religions, 2021 Evidence has shown that interreligious dialogue is one of the paths to build bridges among diverse cultural and religious communities that otherwise would be in conflict. Some literature reflects, from a normative standpoint, on how interreligious dialogue should be authentic and meaningful.
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Group Agency and Supervenience* [PDF]
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2006 AbstractCan groups be rational agents over and above their individual members? We argue that group agents are distinguished by their capacity to mimic the way in which individual agents act and that this capacity must “supervene” on the group members' contributions. But what is the nature of this supervenience relation?
Christian List, Philip Pettit
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Eliminating Group Agency [PDF]
Economics and Philosophy, 2021 AbstractAggregating individuals’ consistent attitudes might produce inconsistent collective attitudes. Some groups therefore need the capacity to form attitudes that are irreducible to those of their members. Such groups, group-agent realists argue, are agents in control of their own attitude formation.
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Ethics & Global Politics, 2022 States commit wrongs that demand redress. In her recent book, Avia Pasternak considers the circumstances under which it is legitimate to impose the cost of redress upon the state’s citizens at large.
Bennet Francis
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Group Agency and Artificial Intelligence [PDF]
Philosophy & Technology, 2021 AbstractThe aim of this exploratory paper is to review an under-appreciated parallel between group agency and artificial intelligence. As both phenomena involve non-human goal-directed agents that can make a difference to the social world, they raise some similar moral and regulatory challenges, which require us to rethink some of our anthropocentric ...
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Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
Journal of Social Ontology, 2017 Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons.
Hirvonen Onni
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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the paper, I distinguish the bottom-up strategy and the intentional stance strategy of analyzing group intentional states, and show that the thesis of distributed group subject of knowledge could be accommodated by either of them.
Barbara Trybulec
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Analysis of the cognitive processes involved in creating and sustaining cooperative group activity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 A cooperative group activity (CGA) and shared intentionality are two phenomena whereby two or more individuals engage in an activity with the intention that the group will succeed, that is, to act as a “we.
Simon Skau, Simon Skau
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