From Plural to Institutional Agency: Collective Action IIKirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing that it can be understood exhaustively in terms of the agency of individuals and concepts constructed out of materials that are already at play in our understanding of individual action. He thus argues for a strong form of methodological individualism. The book provides a new account of the logical form of grammatically singular group action sentences (e.g. 'Company laid off 10,000 workers'), and features new analyses of the concepts of a constitutive rule, status function, status role, collective acceptance, and proxy agency. He also provides an analysis of the structure of corporate action, including the status of corporations as legal persons, and of the nature of state action in relation to its citizens. This is the companion volume to From Individual to Plural Agency (OUP 2016), extending the multiple-agents account of collective action set out in the earlier volume. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Plural Agency | 11 |
Singular Group Agents | 36 |
The DistributiveCollective Ambiguity in Singular Group Action Sentences | 44 |
The Apparent Autonomy of Singular Group Agents | 54 |
Essentially Intentional Action Types | 77 |
Constitutive Rules and Agency | 92 |
Status Functions as Agentive Functions | 104 |
Group Membership | 160 |
Declarations and Status Functions | 181 |
The Division of Labor and Proxy Agency | 186 |
Corporations | 213 |
Nation States | 241 |
Summary and Conclusion | 257 |
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| Title | From Plural to Institutional Agency: Collective Action II Volume 2 of Collective action, Kirk Ludwig |
| Author | Kirk Ludwig |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0198789998, 9780198789994 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / Mind & Body Philosophy / Social |
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