期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：2
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：When thinking about the concept of ‘group agency’, a number of
questions come to mind. We may wish to ask, in the first place, whether
it is even legitimate to consider a group as an agent. Is it not just a
linguistic shortcut to attribute knowledge, or even action, to a group,
for example when we claim that a research centre has mapped the DNA
of a new organism? The first and foremost task that List and Pettit
undertake in the book being reviewed here is to explain why we should
consider certain groups as agents. The authors defend the claim that
some groups, just like individuals, satisfy all the conditions for being an
agent. That is, to possess a world view, to have a set of plans or desires
as to how the world should look like, and to have the capacity to bring
actions about in order to change the world so that it looks (more) like
those plans.
