Collectivity

Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice

AvKendy M. Hess,Violetta Igneski

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-02
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786606327
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensioner:152 x 229 x undefined mm

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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.

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Hess, Igneski, and Isaacs have assembled an exceptional collection of new papers exploring the issues of ontology, ethics and social justice with respect to collectives. Many of the chapters advance and deepen prior analyses of the way collective entities should be considered from the point of view of moral responsibility, practically and theoretically. Collectivity makes provocative moves in the direction of aligning moral assessment and ontological considerations with the real world of corporations, organizations, groups, nations, and other collectives that control much of the social, political, and economic events that shape our lives for good or ill.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Kendy Hess, Violetta Igneski, and Tracy IsaacsPart One: OntologyChapter 1: Social Creationism and Social Groups, Katherine RitchieChapter 2: The Peculiar Unity of Corporate Agents, Kendy HessChapter 3: Can There Be an Ethics for Institutional Agents? Sean CordellChapter 4: At Cross Purposes: The Responsible Subject, Organizational Reality and the Criminal Law, Jennifer QuaidPart Two: EthicsChapter 5: Making Sense of Collective Moral Obligations: A Comparison of Existing Approaches, Anne SchwenkenbecherChapter 6: Individual Duties in Unstructured Collective Contexts, Violetta IgneskiChapter 7: Global Obligations and the Human Right to Health, Bill WringeChapter 8: When Are Collective Obligations Too Demanding? Felix PinkertChapter 9: Who Does Wrong When an Organization Does Wrong? Stephanie CollinsPart Three: Social JusticeChapter 10: What Would a Feminist Theory of Collective Action and Responsibility Look Like? Tracy IsaacsChapter 11: Identities of Oppression: Collec