Abstract
Christian List and Philip Pettit's Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 240 pp.
Highlights
GROUP AGENCY / BOOK REVIEW the authors to make extensive use of mathematical tools for analyzing the logical space of group agency: which functions a group can and cannot logically perform, given its composition and decision making design
The major challenge that arises from the first chapter is how can a group, whose individuals likely hold diverse and possibly conflicting attitudes, form a single and coherent set of such attitudes as required by the definition of group agency?
The authors favour relaxing systematicity as a way of avoiding the impossibility result, and they suggest a premisebased procedure as an optimal aggregation function that would allow a group to transform a multitude of individual attitudes into a collective one
Summary
GROUP AGENCY / BOOK REVIEW the authors to make extensive use of mathematical tools for analyzing the logical space of group agency: which functions a group can and cannot logically perform, given its composition and decision making design. The authors favour relaxing systematicity as a way of avoiding the impossibility result, and they suggest a premisebased procedure as an optimal aggregation function that would allow a group to transform a multitude of individual attitudes into a collective one.
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