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Collective Alternatives

Author : Franz von Kutschera

Published in: Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the logic of agency individual alternatives of agents have been taken as basic, so far, while the alternatives of groups of agents have been derived from the alternatives of the group members. In many cases, however, groups have additional possibilities. In the paper I propose a generalized theory of collective alternatives that takes them as fundamental.

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Footnotes
1
On the relation of the statements “The agent \(X\) has the possibility to do \(F\)” and “It is possible, that \(X\) does \(F\)”, and the relation between “\(X\) could have done otherwise” and “If \(X\) would have wished differently he would have acted differently” there is a whole library of publications. Determinists naturally misinterpret the first sentences in the sense of the latter. Cf. e.g. ([8], Chap. 6).
 
2
Relations to the treatment of collective agency in other logics are stated in [7].
 
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Belnap, N., & Perloff, M. (1988). Seeing to it that: A canonical form of agentives. Theoria, 54(3), 175–199.CrossRef
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Kutschera, F. (1993). Causation. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 22(6), 563–588.CrossRef
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Kutschera, F. (2011). Individuelle und kollektive Alternativen. In C. Lumer & U. Meyer (Eds.), Geist und Moral (pp. 279–295). Mentis: Analytische Reflexionen für Wolfgang Lenzen.
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Metadata
Title
Collective Alternatives
Author
Franz von Kutschera
Copyright Year
2014
Book
Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-06079-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-06080-4

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06080-4_10

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