Joint commitment: how we make the social world

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This new essay collection by distinguished philosopher Margaret Gilbert provides a richly textured argument for the importance of joint commitment in our personal and public lives. Topics covered by this diverse range of essays range from marital love to patriotism, from promissory obligation to the unity of the European Union.

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Full title :Joint commitment : how we make the social world / Margaret Gilbert.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:xiii, 449 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780199970148, 0199970149, 9780190251956, 0190251956
oclc:ocn841198104
LC Classification:H61.15
Dewey Decimal:300.1

Part one. Shared agency -- Acting together -- Considerations on joint commitment -- Who's to blame? -- Rationality in collective action -- Two approaches to shared intention -- Part two. Collective attitudes -- Belief and acceptance as features of groups -- Collective epistemology -- Shared values, social unity, and liberty -- Social convention revisited -- Collective guilt and collective guilt feelings -- Part three. Mutual recognition, promises, and love -- Fusion: sketch of a "contractual" model -- Scanlon on promissory obligation: the problem of promisees' rights -- Three dogmas about promising -- Mutual recognition and some related phenomena -- Part four. Political life -- A real unity of them all -- Pro patria: an essay on patriotism -- De-moralizing political obligation -- Commands and their practical import.

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