From Plural to Institutional Agency: Collective Action II
Author:   Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198789994


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
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Author:   Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780198789994


ISBN 10:   0198789998
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Plural Agency 3: Singular Group Agents 4: The Distributive/Collective Ambiguity in Singular Group Action Sentences 5: The Apparent Autonomy of Singular Group Agents 6: Essentially Intentional Action Types 7: Constitutive Rules and Agency 8: Status Functions as Agentive Functions 9: Status Functions and Conventions 10: Kinds of Status Functions 11: Group Membership 12: Declarations and Status Functions 13: The Division of Labor and Proxy Agency 14: Corporations 15: Nation States 16: Summary and Conclusion

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A clear introductory chapter summarizes the methods and argument of the first volume, so this second volume can be read independently, though scholars in the field will certainly want to read both volumes ... Recommended. * S. E. Forschler, CHOICE *


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Kirk Ludwig is a Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. He taught at the University of Florida from 1990 to 2010 and was the Colonel Alan R. and Margaret G. Crow CLAS Term Professor from 2008 to 2010, when he joined Indiana University, Bloomington. He works primarily in the Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Language, and Epistemology. He is the editor of Donald Davidson (CUP, 2003), co-author with Ernie Lepore of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality (OUP, 2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (OUP, 2007), and co-editor with Ernie Lepore of Companion to Donald Davidson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

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