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Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions

Author(s): Pettit, Philip N.

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Abstract: © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Group agents have been represented as expressive fictions by those who treat ascriptions of agency to groups as metaphorical; as pragmatic fictions by those who think that the agency ascribed to groups belongs in the first place to a distinct individual or set of individuals; and as theoretical fictions by those who think that postulating group agents serves no indispensable role in our theory of the social world. This paper identifies, criticizes and rejects each of these views, defending a strong realist position.
Publication Date: Oct-2014
Citation: Pettit, P. (2014). Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions. Erkenntnis, 79 (1641 - 1662. doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9633-x
DOI: doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9633-x
ISSN: 0165-0106
EISSN: 1572-8420
Pages: 1 - 32
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: Erkenntnis
Version: Author's manuscript



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