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Collectivity and Circularity

Petersson, Björn LU (2008)
Abstract
The common claim that the notion of collective action must figure in the content of the attitudes of the parties to a collective action gives rise to a circularity challenge. Standard responses to this challenge are criticized. This article’s solution exploits a notion of collectivity that does not presuppose intention: a purely causal conception that can be explicated in terms of dispositions and causal agency. Participants in a jointly intentional collective action do not need to possess a stronger notion of collectivity than this. In particular, they do not need to possess the concept of a jointly intentional collective action.
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Concepts of Sharedness - Essays on Collective Intentionality
editor
Schulte-Osterman, Kathinka ; Psarros, Nikos and Schmid, Hans Bernhard
publisher
Ontos Verlag
ISBN
978-3-938793-96-1
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Gruppmoral och individuellt anvar
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English
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yes
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Previously published in Journal of Philosophy 2007
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