Collectivity

Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice

Kendy M. Hess, Violetta Igneski, Tracy Isaacs (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2018
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-631-0 (ISBN)

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This volume explores new and urgent applications of collective action theory, such as global poverty, the race and class politics of urban geography, and culpable conduct in organizational criminal law. It draws attention to new questions about the status of corporate agents and new approaches to collective obligation and responsibility.

Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice brings new voices and new approaches to under-developed areas in the philosophical literature on collectives and collective action. The essays in this volume introduce and explore a range of topics that fall under the more general concept of collectivity, including collective ontology, collective action, collective obligation, and collective responsibility. A number of the chapters link collectivity directly to significant issues of social justice.

The volume addresses a variety of questions including the ontology and taxonomy of social groups and other collective entities, ethical frameworks for understanding the nature and extent of individual and collective moral obligations, and applications of these conceptual explorations to oppressive social practices like mass incarceration, climate change, and global poverty. The essays draw on a variety of approaches and disciplines, including feminist and continental approaches and work in legal theory and geography, as well as more traditional philosophical contributions.

Tracy Isaacs is Professor of Philosophy, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts (2011) and co-editor, with Richard Vernon, of Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing (2011). Kendy M. Hess is the Brake Smith Associate Professor of Social Philosophy and Ethics at the College of the Holy Cross. Violetta Igneski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University.

Introduction, Kendy Hess, Violetta Igneski, and Tracy Isaacs
Part One: Ontology
Chapter 1: Social Creationism and Social Groups, Katherine Ritchie
Chapter 2: The Peculiar Unity of Corporate Agents, Kendy Hess
Chapter 3: Can There Be an Ethics for Institutional Agents? Sean Cordell
Chapter 4: At Cross Purposes: The Responsible Subject, Organizational Reality and the Criminal Law, Jennifer Quaid
Part Two: Ethics
Chapter 5: Making Sense of Collective Moral Obligations: A Comparison of Existing Approaches, Anne Schwenkenbecher
Chapter 6: Individual Duties in Unstructured Collective Contexts, Violetta Igneski
Chapter 7: Global Obligations and the Human Right to Health, Bill Wringe
Chapter 8: When Are Collective Obligations Too Demanding? Felix Pinkert
Chapter 9: Who Does Wrong When an Organization Does Wrong? Stephanie Collins
Part Three: Social Justice
Chapter 10: What Would a Feminist Theory of Collective Action and Responsibility Look Like? Tracy Isaacs
Chapter 11: Identities of Oppression: Collec

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 223 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-78660-631-3 / 1786606313
ISBN-13	978-1-78660-631-0 / 9781786606310
Zustand	Neuware