Organisations as ObjectsStephanie Collins (Australian Catholic University)
Melbourne
Australia
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Organisations as Objects
Social ontologists have thought a lot about group agency, but not a lot about group agents. This paper aims to locate organisations (one type of group agent) as material objects in the natural world. It does this by analysing the organisation-member relation in such a way that the members are the material parts of organisations, following Kathrin Koslicki's analysis of the parts of ordinary objects. The result is that individuals are to organizations as slices are to pizzas.
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Stephanie Collins is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. She primarily works on collective responsibility and group agency. She is currently working on her third monograph, Organisations as Wrongdoers, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her other monographs are Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals (OUP, 2019) and The Core of Care Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
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