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Jessica Brown examines groups both as epistemic and as moral agents, offering original accounts of group evidence, group belief, group justified belief, group knowledge, what it is for a group to act or believe for one reason rather than another, and when a group has an excuse for wrongdoing from blameless ignorance.
Cover -- Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. A Package of Views -- Chapter 2. Group Evidence -- Chapter 3. Group Belief for a Reason -- Chapter 4. Group Belief -- Chapter 5. Group Justified Belief and Knowledge -- Chapter 6. Group Action for a Reason -- Chapter 7. Group Excuse from Blameless Ignorance -- 1: A Package of Views -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Summative and Non-summative Approaches to Group Mental States -- 3. Extending the Debate: Group Evidence, Group Belief/Action for a Reason, and Group Excuse from Ignorance
3.1 Group Evidence -- 3.2 Group Belief/Action for a Reason -- 3.3 Group Justified Belief/Knowledge -- 3.4 Group Blameless Ignorance -- 4. Conclusion -- 2: Group Evidence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence -- 3. Two Approaches to Group Evidence -- 4. Summative Accounts of Group Evidence -- 4.1 Inconsistent Evidence -- 4.2 An Overly Generous Conception of Group Evidence -- 4.3 Tension with the Doxastic Constraint -- 5. A Non-summative Account of Group Evidence -- 6. Lackey's Objections to Joint Acceptance Accounts of Group Evidence -- 7. Conclusion -- 3: Group Belief for a Reason -- 1. Introduction
2. Evidence, Reasons, and Basing -- 3. Summative versus Non-summative Approaches -- 4. A Non-summative Account -- 5. Non-summativism and DBC -- 6. Non-summativism, Action, and Assertion -- 7. Conclusion -- 4: Group Belief -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functionalism -- 3. Lackey's Group Agent Account -- 4. Conclusion -- 5: Group Justified Belief and Knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lackey on Group Justified Belief -- 3. Group Belief from Aggregating Member Views: The Perceptual and Inferential Models -- 4. Objections to the Testimonial Model Diffused -- 5. A Testimonial Model
6. Comparison of the Three Models -- 7. Different Epistemological Approaches -- 8. Objections -- 9. Conclusion -- 6: Group Action for a Reason -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acting for a Reason and Group Moral Responsibility -- 3. Group Action -- 4. A Summative Account -- 5. A Non-summative Account of Group Action for a Reason -- 6. Conclusion -- 7: Group Excuse from Blameless Ignorance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. No Need for an Account? -- 3. Group Blameless Ignorance as a Function of Member Blameless Ignorance -- 4. Non-summativism about Group Belief, Evidence, and Blameless Ignorance
5. Group Blameless Ignorance: A New Account -- 6. Group Action from Ignorance -- 7. Conclusion -- Concluding Remarks: Organized Groups as Agents -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]