Collectivity (eBook, PDF)

Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice
Redaktion: Hess, Kendy M.; Isaacs, Tracy; Igneski, Violetta

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881872809
• Artikelnr.: 74846836

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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