Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents
List, Christian
Pettit, Philip
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them. INDICE: Contents; Preface; Introduction; I: The Logical Possibility of Group Agents; 1: The Conditions of Agency; 2: The aggregation of intentional attitudes; 3: The structure of group agents; II: The Organizational Design of Group Agents; 4: The Epistemic Desideratum; 5: The Incentive-Compatibility Desideratum; 6: The Control Desideratum; III: The Normative Status of Group Agents; 7: Holding Group Agents Responsible; 8: Personifying Group Agents; 9: Identifying with Group Agents; References; Endnotes
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959156-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés