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Joint Commitment

How We Make the Social World

By: Margaret Gilbert

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Joint Commitment

How We Make the Social World

By: Margaret Gilbert

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 these diverse essays range from marital love to patriotism, from promissory obligation to the unity of the European Union.

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464

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Oxford University Press

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0190251956

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9780190251956

Rights and Demands

A Foundational Inquiry

By: Margaret Gilbert

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Rights and Demands

A Foundational Inquiry

By: Margaret Gilbert

Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. How are such rights possible? Everyday agreements are generally acknowledged to be sources of demand-rights, but what is it about an agreement that accounts for this? The central thesis of this book is that joint commitment is a ground of demand-rights, and that it may be the only ground. In developing this thesis Margaret Gilbert argues in detail for joint commitment accounts of both agreements and promises. The final chapter explains the relevance of its argument to our understanding of human rights. Engaging where appropriate with contemporary rights theory, Gilbert provides an accessible route into this area for those previously unfamiliar with it.

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320

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Oxford University Press

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0192543199

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9780192543196

Dr. Gilbert's Daughters. A Story for Girls

By: Margaret Harriet Mathews

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Dr. Gilbert's Daughters. A Story for Girls

By: Margaret Harriet Mathews

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385425158

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9783385425156

Living Together

Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation

By: Margaret Gilbert

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Living Together

Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation

By: Margaret Gilbert

Following up her landmark work On Social Facts, this collection of essays by noted social philosopher Margaret Gilbert develops and deepens her theory of social groups as 'plural subjects.' She asks, how far can our rationality take us when we pursue our personal goals? What does it mean to be a member of a group? Does group membership involve obligations and rights, and, if so, how? Gilbert argues that, in order to understand the social dimensions of human life, we must go beyond the prevailing 'game theoretic' picture of people acting as independent individuals, to incorporate their situation as group members, or plural subjects bound together by joint commitments. Her new theory of obligation will be of interest to scholars engaged in empirical research as well as to philosophers and social and political theorists.

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436

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847681513

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9780847681518

Life in Groups

How We Think, Feel, and Act Together

By: Margaret Gilbert

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Life in Groups

How We Think, Feel, and Act Together

By: Margaret Gilbert

Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together develops and applies the author's perspective on topics she relates to joint commitment. This kind of commitment unifies those who participate in it, guides their actions going forward, and determines their relations to one another in important ways. In particular, it grounds in each of the parties a set of rights and obligations of a central kind. This volume contains thirteen essays, together with a substantial introduction, which serves both to explain joint commitment for those unfamiliar with it and to advance discussion in light of some questions it has prompted, and a reflective conclusion. The essays range over collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and collective preference; group lies and corporate misbehavior; remorse and other emotions in a group context; rights, obligations, and freedom.

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351

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Oxford University Press

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019266283X

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9780192662835

A Theory of Political Obligation

Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society

By: Margaret Gilbert

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A Theory of Political Obligation

Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society

By: Margaret Gilbert

Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in central, standard senses of the relevant terms membership in a political society in and of itself obligates one to support that society's political institutions. The obligations in questionare not moral requirements derived from general moral principles, as is often supposed, but a matter of one's participation in a special kind of commitment: joint commitment. An agreement is sufficient but not necessary to generate such a commitment. Gilbert uses the phrase 'plural subject' to referto all of those who are jointly committed in some way. She therefore labels the theory offered in this book the plural subject theory of political obligation.The author concentrates on the exposition of this theory, carefully explaining how and in what sense joint commitments obligate. She also explores a classic theory of political obligation --- actual contract theory --- according to which one is obligated to conform to the laws of one's country because one agreed to do so. She offers a new interpretation of this theory in light of a theory of plural subject theory of agreements. She argues that actual contract theory has more merit than has beenthought, though the more general plural subject theory is to be preferred. She compares and contrasts plural subject theory with identification theory, relationship theory, and the theory of fair play. She brings it to bear on some classic situations of crisis, and, in the concluding chapter,suggests a number of avenues for related empirical and moral inquiry.Clearly and compellingly written, A Theory of Political Obligation will be essential reading for political philosophers and theorists.

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0199274959

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Joint Commitment

Joint Commitment

Rights and Demands

Rights and Demands

Dr. Gilbert's Daughters. A Story for Girls

Dr. Gilbert's Daughters. A Story for Girls

Living Together

Living Together

Life in Groups

Life in Groups

A Theory of Political Obligation

A Theory of Political Obligation

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