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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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The Philosophical Forum, 2000
L'A. s'interroge sur la nature possible des groupes sociaux et conclut a l'impossibilite d'une action morale de ceux-ci en tant qu'agents. Examinant le statut des corporations comme personnes morales en reference aux travaux de P. A. French, l'A. montre que la reconnaisance de structures decisionnelles ne suffit pas a attribuer une decision morale au ...
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L'A. s'interroge sur la nature possible des groupes sociaux et conclut a l'impossibilite d'une action morale de ceux-ci en tant qu'agents. Examinant le statut des corporations comme personnes morales en reference aux travaux de P. A. French, l'A. montre que la reconnaisance de structures decisionnelles ne suffit pas a attribuer une decision morale au ...
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Leaders, Agencies, Groups, Agendas
2009When the Nazis came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, Europe’s fascists were elated. They saw Hitler’s appointment as Reich chancellor not only as a triumph of the German Nazis but as another milestone in the fascists’ quest to free Europe from the stranglehold of liberalism, democracy, and Marxism.
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GROUP AGENCY AND EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCY
Episteme, 2012AbstractModern epistemic questions have largely been focused around the individual and her ability to acquire knowledge autonomously. More recently epistemologists have begun to look more broadly in providing accounts of knowledge by considering its social context, where the individual depends on others for true beliefs.
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Group Agency, Responsibility, and Control
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2012Understanding how individual agency and group agency relate is of great importance for a range of philosophical and practical concerns, including responsibility ascription and institutional design. This article discusses the relation between corporate and individual responsibility in agency—in particular, the relation between corporate and individual ...
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Monsters and Their Makers: Group Agency Without Moral Agency
2017Private business corporations and other organizations are often treated as objects of moral blame in public discourse. According to Peter French such talk of a group’s moral responsibility is to be taken literally: groups can constitute group agents that are appropriate subjects of moral responsibility.
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Social Theory and Practice
Pathologies of agency affect both groups and individuals. I present a case study of agential pathology in a group, in which supposedly rogue members of a group act in light of what they take the group’s interests and attitudes to be, but in a way that goes against the group’s explicitly stated agential point of view.
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Pathologies of agency affect both groups and individuals. I present a case study of agential pathology in a group, in which supposedly rogue members of a group act in light of what they take the group’s interests and attitudes to be, but in a way that goes against the group’s explicitly stated agential point of view.
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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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Personal agency in employment groups
2009The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of viewing employment group programs as processes of enhancing personal agency. Personal causation theory (deCharms, 1976) was used to operationalize the concept of personal agency. Two questions were investigated.
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