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Unintentional collective action

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper, I examine the manner in which analyses of the action of single agents have been pressed into service for constructing accounts of collective action. Specifically, I argue that the best analogy to collective action is a class of individual action that Carl Ginet has called ‘aggregate action.’ Furthermore, once we use aggregate action as a model of collective action, then we see that existing accounts of collective action have failed to accommodate an important class of (what I shall call) ‘unintentional collective actions.’

Source: Philosophical Explorations

DOI: 10.1080/13869790701535246

Author: Sara Rachel Chant

Language: English

Topic: Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Universität zu Köln

OpenAlex ID: W2008614409

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Cites: 23

Cited by: 31

Related to: 10