Collective Action as Individual Choice
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چکیده
Collective action raises both conceptual and descriptive questions. The conceptual question concerns when we should count a set of actions performed by individuals as a unified ‘collective action’. For example, when a group of passengers aboard a broken bus spontaneously exit the bus and push it off the railroad tracks, we would call this event an instance of ‘collective action’ – we would say that, in addition to the actions of individual passengers, the group performed the collective action of pushing the bus off the tracks. At least the surface level of our description treats the group as a single agent, and that single agent is the author of an action. The problem of determining when (if ever) such attributions are appropriate belongs to philosophical action theory, and has been undertaken by numerous authors. On the other hand, we can assume that the concept of collective action is intuitively clear enough, and ask the descriptive question, ‘Under what circumstances will groups of people coordinate their individual actions and perform a collective action?’ For example, we might ask what feature of our example makes it so salient to the passengers that they should coordinate their efforts. This is a descriptive problem, which may be addressed using the tools of game theory.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Studia Logica
دوره 86 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007