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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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Footprint, 2009 This article offers a critical review of the conference AGENCY (November 2008), written by ‘The Agency’, a research group based in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, where the conference was held. It was hoped that the submissions
The Agency Research Group
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The Ontology of Group Agency [PDF]
, 2014 We present an ontological analysis of the notion of group agency developed by Christian List and Philip Pettit. We focus on this notion as it allows us to neatly distinguish groups, organizations, corporations – to which we may ascribe agency – from mere aggregates of individuals.
Porello Daniele +2 more
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Sense of agency during group control.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralPrevious work has shown that the sense of agency increases when commanding other people. However, such work has primarily been limited to dyads, and little is known about how the sense of agency changes when the number of followers increases. Furthermore, it is unclear if commanding social agents vs.
Carl Michael Galang +4 more
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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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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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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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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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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.
Roger Campdepadrós-Cullell +3 more
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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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