Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning

Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning
Author: Christopher McMahon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001-08-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521011785

"This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what people can accomplish by reasoning together, of the role of deliberation in democratic decision making, and of the negotiation of the proper use of concepts. Presenting for the first time a detailed analysis of the general problem of cooperation and collective reasoning between people with different moral commitments, this book will be of particular interest to philosophers of the social sciences and to students in political science, sociology and economics." --Cambridge Press.

From Individual to Plural Agency

From Individual to Plural Agency
Author: Kirk Ludwig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198755627

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention. He argues that collective action is a matter of there being multiple agents of an event and requires no group agents, while shared intentions are distributions of intentions across members of the group.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality
Author: Marija Jankovic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317666852

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.

Collective Action

Collective Action
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What is Collective Action Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective. It is a term that has formulations and theories in many areas of the social sciences including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Collective action Chapter 2: Social norm Chapter 3: Free-rider problem Chapter 4: Social group Chapter 5: Social movement Chapter 6: Rebellion Chapter 7: Club good Chapter 8: Theories of technology Chapter 9: Public goods game Chapter 10: Lindahl tax Chapter 11: Critical mass (sociodynamics) Chapter 12: Collective action problem Chapter 13: Identity formation Chapter 14: Social identity theory Chapter 15: Group decision-making Chapter 16: Self-categorization theory Chapter 17: Social identity approach Chapter 18: Moral development Chapter 19: Ethnic identity development Chapter 20: Collective intentionality Chapter 21: Intergroup relations (II) Answering the public top questions about collective action. (III) Real world examples for the usage of collective action in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of collective action.

Collective Action, Philosophy and Law

Collective Action, Philosophy and Law
Author: Teresa Marques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000485951

Collective Action, Philosophy and Law brings together two important strands of philosophical analysis. It combines general philosophical inquiry into collective agency with analyses of specific questions about plural entities and activities in the legal domain. These are issues of growing interest in areas of philosophy like action theory and social ontology, as well as in philosophy of law. The book contains 13 original chapters written by an international team of leading philosophers and legal theorists and is divided into 4 parts: The nature of law and of legislative intention Practical reasoning and duties Causality, blameworthiness and responsibility Citizens, states and institutions. These sections cut across, and build on, different accounts to advance the debate on classical and new issues in collective agency. Each part also features legal-philosophical analyses that draw on general accounts of collective agency to cast new light on the law, descriptive as well as normatively. Collective Action, Philosophy and Law is the first major interdisciplinary and multi-authored work bridging legal and philosophical approaches to collective agency. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers of philosophy of law, ethics, political philosophy, jurisprudence and legal theory.

What is Criminology About?

What is Criminology About?
Author: Don Crewe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-02-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317686365

Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the provocative possibility that criminology does not know what the object of its study is; it merely knows what it is called. Aiming to foster dissent among those who claim to know what criminology is about – and those who don’t – writers from different schools of thought come together in this collection to answer the question "what is criminology about?" Building on a resurgence of interest in the nature of the object of criminology, their responses aim to deepen, and to expand, the current debate. This book will, then, be of considerable interest to contemporary proponents and students of criminology and law.

From Individual to Collective Intentionality

From Individual to Collective Intentionality
Author: Sara Rachel Chant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019993651X

Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of collective intentions. This volume brings together ten new philosophical essays that address issues such as how individuals succeed in maintaining coordination throughout the performance of a collective action, whether groups can actually believe propositions or whether they merely accept them, and what kind of evidence, if any, disciplines such as cognitive science and semantics provide in support of irreducibly collective states. The theories of the Big Four of collective intentionality -- Michael Bratman, Raimo Tuomela, John Searle, and Margaret Gilbert -- and the Big Five of Social Ontology -- which in addition to the Big Four includes Philip Pettit -- play a central role in almost all of these essays. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including dynamical systems theory, economics, and psychology, the contributors develop existing theories, criticize them, or provide alternatives to them. Several essays challenge the idea that there is a straightforward dichotomy between individual and collective level rationality, and explore the interplay between these levels in order to shed new light on the alleged discontinuities between them. These contributions make abundantly clear that it is no longer an option simply to juxtapose analyses of individual and collective level phenomena and maintain that there is a discrepancy. Some go as far as arguing that on closer inspection the alleged discontinuities dissolve

A Social Psychology of Protest

A Social Psychology of Protest
Author: Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1107178002

An interdisciplinary analysis of protest participation, leading to integrated approaches to the social psychology of protest.