Joint commitment : how we make the social world /
Gilbert, Margaret,author.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part one. Shared agency -- Acting together -- Considerations on joint commitment -- Who's to blame? -- Rationality in collective action -- Two approaches to shared intention -- Part two. Collective attitudes -- Belief and acceptance as features of groups -- Collective epistemology -- Shared values, social unity, and liberty -- Social convention revisited -- Collective guilt and collective guilt feelings -- Part three. Mutual recognition, promises, and love -- Fusion: sketch of a "contractual" model -- Scanlon on promisory obligation: the problem of promisees' rights -- Three dogmas about promising -- Mutual recognition and some related phenomena -- Part four. Political life -- A real unity of them all -- Pro patria: an essay on patriotism -- De-moralizing political obligation -- Commands and their practical import.
Social sciences
Sociology