Accounting for groups: the dynamics of intragroup deliberation
| Autor: | Julia Morley, J. McKenzie Alexander |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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BF Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Judgement Agency (philosophy) HM Sociology 050401 social sciences methods General Social Sciences 050201 accounting Deliberation Epistemology Philosophy 0504 sociology Prima facie Argument Phenomenon 0502 economics and business Normative Psychology Axiom media_common |
| Zdroj: | Synthese. 199:7957-7980 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-021-03146-z |
| Popis: | In a highly influential work, List and Pettit (Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, Oxford University Press, 2011) draw upon the theory of judgement aggregation to offer an argument for the existence of nonreductive group agents; they also suggest that nonreductive group agency is a widespread phenomenon. In this paper, we argue for the following two claims. First, that the axioms they consider cannot naturally be interpreted as either descriptive characterisations or normative constraints upon group judgements, in general. This makes it unclear how the List and Pettit argument is to apply to real world group behaviour. Second, by examining empirical data about how group judgements are made by a powerful international regulatory board, we show how each of the List and Pettit axioms can be violated in ways which are straightforwardly explicable at the level of the individual. This suggests that group agency may best be understood as a pluralistic phenomenon, where close inspection of the dynamics of intragroup deliberation can reveal that what prima facie appears to be a nonreductive group agent is, in fact, reducible. |
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