Commitments in Groups and Commitments of Groups

I argue that a group can have normative commitments, and that the commitment of a group is not merely a sum or aggregate of the commitments of individual group members. I begin with a set of simple cases which illustrate two structurally different ways that group commitments can go wrong. These two...

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Autor principal:	Jacob Heim
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Lenguaje:	EN FR IT
Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2016
Materias:	social ontology joint commitment Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7d203adb1f0f4c67838bc2609aa990be2021-12-02T09:51:19ZCommitments in Groups and Commitments of Groups10.13128/Phe_Mi-181532280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/7d203adb1f0f4c67838bc2609aa990be2016-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7215https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 I argue that a group can have normative commitments, and that the commitment of a group is not merely a sum or aggregate of the commitments of individual group members. I begin with a set of simple cases which illustrate two structurally different ways that group commitments can go wrong. These two kinds of potential failure correspond to two different levels of commitment: one at the individual level, owed to the other group members, and one at the group level, which the group as a single body owes either to itself or to some third party. I distinguish the content of a commitment (what must be done for the commitment to be fulfilled) from the holder of that commitment: the party to whom the content is owed. I then discuss examples which support the two-level view of group commitment and show that, even when individual-level and group-level commitments have the same content, they are understood to have different holders. Finally I return to my original cases and argue that a two-level structure of group commitment allows us to make sense of the problems that occur in them. Jacob HeimRosenberg & Sellierarticlesocial ontologyjoint commitmentAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 9 (2016)
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description	I argue that a group can have normative commitments, and that the commitment of a group is not merely a sum or aggregate of the commitments of individual group members. I begin with a set of simple cases which illustrate two structurally different ways that group commitments can go wrong. These two kinds of potential failure correspond to two different levels of commitment: one at the individual level, owed to the other group members, and one at the group level, which the group as a single body owes either to itself or to some third party. I distinguish the content of a commitment (what must be done for the commitment to be fulfilled) from the holder of that commitment: the party to whom the content is owed. I then discuss examples which support the two-level view of group commitment and show that, even when individual-level and group-level commitments have the same content, they are understood to have different holders. Finally I return to my original cases and argue that a two-level structure of group commitment allows us to make sense of the problems that occur in them.
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Commitments in Groups and Commitments of Groups

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