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Group Counselling of Alcoholics by a Voluntary Agency
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1975The Merseyside Council on Alcoholism (M.C.A.) is the first operative regional council on alcoholism in the United Kingdom; it is a voluntary organization employing full-time staff (Kenyon, 1972). In its first ten years it has counselled over 4,000 alcoholics; about one third of these needed admission to hospital, so arrangements for admission were ...
J S, Madden, W H, Kenyon
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Journal of Business Ethics, 2018
Although much work has been done on Kant’s theory of moral agency, little explored is the possibility of a Kantian account of the moral agency of groups or collectives that comprise individual human beings. The aim of this paper is to offer a Kantian account of collective moral agency that can explain how organized collectives can perform moral (or ...
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Although much work has been done on Kant’s theory of moral agency, little explored is the possibility of a Kantian account of the moral agency of groups or collectives that comprise individual human beings. The aim of this paper is to offer a Kantian account of collective moral agency that can explain how organized collectives can perform moral (or ...
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Group Agency and Individualism
Erkenntnis, 2014Pettit and List argue for realism about group agency, while at the same time try to retain a form of metaphysical and normative individualism on which human beings qualify as natural persons. This is an unstable and untenable combination of views.
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Propaganda, irrationality, and group agency [PDF]
, 2021 I argue that propaganda does not characteristically interfere with individual rationality, but instead with group agency. Whereas it is often claimed that propaganda involves some sort of incitement to irrationality, I show that this is neither necessary
Hyska, Megan
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Group support for an international agency network
Proceedings of HICSS-29: 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1996The paper describes the use of a distributed group communication system to support consultation and collaboration among a group of people in a network of international agencies, who cannot meet face to face. Following a description of the network and the technology, insights are presented into the type of group support required for consultation and ...
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Sociomaterial Agency Beyond Group Agency
2017The debate on collective/group/shared agency and intentionality within the philosophy of action is long-running and multifaceted. A central concern has been the relation between collective and individual intention/agency, and whether the former is in any sense reducible to the latter.
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Global Individualism and Group Agency
Philosophia, 2021I argue that there are liberal reasons to reject what I call “Global Individualism”, which is the conjunction of two views strongly associated with liberalism: moral individualism and social individualism. According to the first view, all moral properties are reducible to individual moral properties.
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Washington University Review of Philosophy
In this article, I will outline some issues and challenges that permeate the intersubjective recognition of group agency. My aim is, on the one hand, to outline how recognition is relevant to group agency and on the other, to highlight the complications and limits of the recognition-theoretical perspective with regard to analyzing group agency.
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In this article, I will outline some issues and challenges that permeate the intersubjective recognition of group agency. My aim is, on the one hand, to outline how recognition is relevant to group agency and on the other, to highlight the complications and limits of the recognition-theoretical perspective with regard to analyzing group agency.
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A Constitutive Account of Group Agency
Erkenntnis, 2014Erkenntnis 79, 9, 2014, DOI 10.1007/s10670-014-9632 ...
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2020
Abstract The author argues that well-known forms of relativism are unable to accommodate, at once, a set of three highly intuitive theses about the distinctive character of moral reasons. Yet the author argues it is possible to formulate a novel form of normative relativism that has the power to accommodate these claims.
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Abstract The author argues that well-known forms of relativism are unable to accommodate, at once, a set of three highly intuitive theses about the distinctive character of moral reasons. Yet the author argues it is possible to formulate a novel form of normative relativism that has the power to accommodate these claims.
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