Collectivity (eBook)

Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice

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

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2018
342 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-632-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

lt;span>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.

Inhalt

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: Collective Intentionality’s Seriality Problem, Eric Chelstrom

Chapter 12: Resisting Oppression Together: Participatory Intentions and Unequal Agents, Christina Friedlaender

Chapter 13: Geographically Gated Communities: Collective Participation, Marginalization, and the Importance of Shared Values, Sarah Roe and Elyse Zavar

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Applied Ethics • Collective Action • ethics • Justice • Legal philosophy • Moral Philosophy • Philosophy of Law • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political theory • Politics • Social Ontology • Social Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-632-1 / 1786606321
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-632-7 / 9781786606327