Life in Groups develops and applies Margaret Gilbert's influential perspective on topics to do with joint commitment: collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and preference; group lies and corporate misbehaviour; remorse and other emotions; and rights, obligations, and freedom.
Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together is a collection of standalone essays that explores the nature and consequences of our thinking, feeling, and acting together. Topics include collective intentions and their relation to agreements, culture as a collective construction, the impact of collective beliefs on scientific progress, group lies, and the relation of collective wisdom to the freedom of group members. Margaret Gilbert responds to critics of her accounts of political obligation and collective moral responsibility and discusses in detail the mutual rights and obligations she takes to be part and parcel of human life in groups. Throughout the book Gilbert places her notion of joint commitment at the core of our thinking, feeling, and acting together.
Recenzijos
The breadth of topics in this book testifies vividly to the relevance of Gilbert's work * Hans-Bernard Schmid, Mind * Careful attention to the subtleties of everyday interpersonal interactions can yield deep philosophical insight. Margaret Gilbert is a master of such attention. * Nicholas Cornell, Ethics *
Introduction
1: The Nature of Agreements: A Solution to Some Puzzles about Claim-Rights
and Joint Intention
2: Culture as Collective Construction
3: Joint Commitment and Collective Belief
4: Belief, Acceptance, and What Happens in Groups: Some Methodological
Considerations
5: Collective Belief, Kuhn, and the String Theory Community
6: Group Lies---and Some Related Matters
7: Collective Remorse
8: How We Feel: Understanding Collective Emotion Ascriptions
9: Collective Preferences, Obligations, and Rational Choice
10: Corporate Misbehavior and Collective Values
11: Can a Wise Society Be a Free One?
12: Regarding A Theory of Political Obligation
13: Giving Claim-Rights Their Due
Conclusion
A leading figure in the philosophy of the social world, Margaret Gilbert has regularly applied her ideas in that area to significant problems in moral, political, and legal philosophy, and her work has been influential in such fields as developmental psychology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and was awarded the Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution. Gilbert was President of the Pacific branch of the American Philosophical Association in 2023-4, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
