Margaret Gilbert

Sociality and Responsibility (eBook, ePUB)

New Essays in Plural Subject Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sociality and Responsibility develops and extends the application of her plural subject theory of human sociality, first introduced in the earlier works On Social Facts and Living Together. Demonstrating the extensive range and fruitfulness of plural subject theory Gilbert presents accounts of social rules, scientific change, political obligation, collective remorse, collective guilt, shared intention and an important class of rights and obligations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461642480
• Artikelnr.: 39487348

Autorenporträt

Margaret Barbour Gilbert is an award-winning writer from Alabama who lives in New York City. She has published two chapbooks of poems with Finishing Line Press, My Grandmother's Engagement Ring and Blue Electrode. A play, A Scene Of Captivity With Waltzes And Mirrors has been staged twice at Harvard's Agassiz Theater. "Eating Oatmeal" from My Grandmother's Engagement Ring is included in the Alfred Knopf anthology, Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk To Other Poems. She has been seizure-free since 1989.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 1. Introduction: Sociality and Plural Subject Theory
Chapter 4 2. What Is It forUs to Intend?
Chapter 5 3. Collective Belief and Scientific Change
Chapter 6 4. Obligation and Joint Commitment
Chapter 7 5. Social Rules: Some Problems with Hart's Account, and an
Alternative Proposal
Chapter 8 6. Reconsidering the "Actual Contract" Theory of Political
Obligation
Chapter 9 7. Collective Remorse
Chapter 10 8. The Idea of Collective Guilt
Chapter 11 9. In Search of Sociality-Recent Developments in the Philosophy
of Social Phenomena
Chapter 12 Bibliography of Related Works by the Author
Chapter 13 Comprehensive Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Author