{"product_id":"group-duties-their-existence-and-their-implications-for-individuals-hardcover","title":"Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoral duties are regularly attributed to groups. In the media or on the street, we might hear that a specific country has a moral duty to defend human rights, that environmentalists have a moral duty to push for global systemic reform, or that the affluent have a moral duty to alleviate poverty. Do such attributions make conceptual sense or are they mere political rhetoric? And what does that imply for the individual members of these groups? \u003cem\u003eGroup Duties \u003c\/em\u003eoffers the first comprehensive answer to these questions. Stephanie Collins defends a Tripartite Model of group duties - so-called because it divides groups into three fundamental categories. First, we have \u003cem\u003ecombinations\u003c\/em\u003e - collections of agents that don't have any goals or decision-making procedures in common. These groups cannot bear moral duties. Instead, we should re-cast their purported duties as a series of duties, one held by each agent in the combination. Each duty demands its bearer to 'I-reason': to do the best they can, \u003cbr\u003egiven whatever they happen to believe the others will do. Second, there are groups whose members share goals but lack decision-making procedures. These are \u003cem\u003ecoalitions\u003c\/em\u003e. Coalitions also cannot bear duties, but their alleged duties should be replaced with members' several duties to 'we-reason': to do one's part in a particular group pattern of actions, on the presumption that others will do likewise. Third and finally, \u003cem\u003ecollectives\u003c\/em\u003e have group-level procedures for making decisions. They can bear duties. Collectives' duties imply duties for collectives' members to use their role in the collective with a view to the collective doing its duty. With the Tripartite Model in-hand, Collins argues that we can target our political demands at the right entities, in the right way, for the right reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephanie Collins, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Catholic University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephanie Collins is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. She was previously a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in 2013 from the Australian National University. Her previous book, \u003cem\u003eThe Core of Care Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Her work on group duties and collective responsibility has been published in outlets including \u003cem\u003eJournal of Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Political Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy Compass\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753982492960,"sku":"9780198840275","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/38d4515a5160dc9ac5bdef830e799c4b.webp?v=1780030859","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/group-duties-their-existence-and-their-implications-for-individuals-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}