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The Argument from Normative Autonomy for Collective Agents
Author(s) -
Ludwig Kirk
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of social philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1467-9833
pISSN - 0047-2786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00388.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , normative , autonomy , citation , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , law , political science , medicine
This paper is concerned with a recent, clever, and novel argument for the need for genuine collectives in our ontology of agents to accommodate the kinds of normative judgments we make about them. The argument appears in a new paper by David Copp, “On the Agency of Certain Collective Entities: An Argument from ‘Normative Autonomy’” (henceforth ACE), and is developed in Copp’s paper for this special journal issue, “The Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis” (henceforth CAT). The argument goes as follows: