Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions

Author(s): Pettit, Philip N.

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Pettit, Philip N.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2020-04-01T17:07:44Z	-
dc.date.available	2020-04-01T17:07:44Z	-
dc.date.issued	2014-10	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Pettit, P. (2014). Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions. Erkenntnis, 79 (1641 - 1662. doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9633-x	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0165-0106	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1sn4h	-
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 - 32	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Erkenntnis	en_US
dc.rights	Author's manuscript	en_US
dc.title	Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9633-x	-
dc.identifier.eissn	1572-8420	-
pu.type.symplectic	http://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-article	en_US

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