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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Margaret, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages)

Other Title:

How we make the social world

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book comprises eighteen wide-ranging essays that share a common theme: the centrality of joint commitment to human life, both private and public. After an opening chapter that introduces joint commitment and the themes of the book, it is divided into four sections: shared agency; collective attitudes; mutual recognition, promises, and love; and political life. An important aspect of joint commitment is its provision of directed obligations and rights to the parties.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-025195-6

0-19-933229-0

OCLC:

859154833