Paul Sheehy

The Reality of Social Groups

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the ontological nature of social groups and the way in which groups should be regarded within moral deliberation this book makes an original contribution to the field of social philosophy. It tackles the fundamental metaphysical question that has either been ignored or unsatisfactorily addressed: 'what kind of thing is a social group?' Sheehy argues for an ontological realism about groups, defending the thesis that groups are composite material particulars, ontologically on a par with individuals and capable of figuring in their own right in descriptions and explanations. He then goes on to discuss the practical and moral question of whether groups can be regarded as the bearers of moral status, rights and moral judgements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780754653486
• ISBN-10: 075465348X
• Artikelnr.: 23522473

Autorenporträt

Paul Sheehy is Lecturer in Philosophy at Richmond upon Thames College, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Individual and group: identity, composition and reduction
On plural subject theory
Social groups, explanation and ontological holism
Objects of the social world
The corporate soul
The moral status of social groups
The possibility of a group right
The moral evaluation of groups
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index.