Montag, 17. Oktober 2022, 16:00 - 18:00 iCal
Franz Brentano Lectures on Practical Philosophy
with Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
Group Agency in the Field: The Case of the State
Erika-Weinzierl-Saal, Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
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Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2022, 16:15 - 18:00
Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2022, 16:15 - 18:00
Franz Brentano Lectures on Practical Philosophy
with Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
“Group Agency in the Field: The Case of the State”
Organized by:
ERC Project: “The Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency”, Grant No. 740922, PI: Herlinde Pauer-Studer.
In co-operation with Hans Bernhard Schmid and Paulina Sliwa.
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna.
Group Agency in the Field: The Case of the State.
1. Emergent Agency
Standard views suggest that individuals must come together intentionally to constitute a group agent. But, plausibly, the state is a group agent and yet it is not formed intentionally in any sort of social contract. Can the state constitute a group agent, yet come into existence behind people’s backs? And if it does emerge in that way, can it achieve a fully incorporated status without the intentional intervention of members?
2. Modular Agency
On a familiar image, a group agent forms insofar as members rally compliantly behind the voice of its leader or leaders. While this image is maintained in absolutist views of the state like those of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau, it belies the fact that most states have many mutually checking centers of authority and power. How can the state act as a single group agent, yet be composed in this way out of conflicting modules?
3. Turbulent Agency
The membership of a group agent, modular or otherwise, are normally represented as individuals collaborating in the constitution of that body. But the membership or citizenry of a state are often tasked with the job of keeping the state in line and holding it to account. Does this make sense? Can the citizenry constitute the state on the one side, yet be a body charged with holding it responsible on the other?
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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Herlinde Pauer-Studer
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Florian Kolowrat
Universität Wien - Institut für Philosophie
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