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dc.contributor.authorHawley, Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-31T13:30:07Z
dc.date.available2017-10-31T13:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-12
dc.identifier251452131
dc.identifierb923d2d8-b003-4062-963f-b8f857aded6e
dc.identifier85046479945
dc.identifier000431404900001
dc.identifier.citationHawley , K 2018 , ' Social mereology ' , Journal of the American Philosophical Association , vol. 3 , no. 4 , pp. 395-411 . https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2017.33en
dc.identifier.issn2053-4477
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8179-2550/work/41609234
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11960
dc.descriptionWork on this paper was supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.en
dc.description.abstractWhat kind of entity is a committee, a book group, or a band? I argue that committees and other such social groups are concrete, composite particulars, having ordinary human beings among their parts. Thus, the committee members are literally parts of the committee. This mereological view of social groups was popular several decades ago but fell out of favor following influential objections from David-Hillel Ruben. Recent years have seen a tidal wave of work in metaphysics, including the metaphysics of parts and wholes. We now have the resources to rehabilitate the mereological view of social groups. I show how this can be done and why we should bother.
dc.format.extent17
dc.format.extent366003
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the American Philosophical Associationen
dc.subjectSocial groupsen
dc.subjectMembershipen
dc.subjectCollectivesen
dc.subjectParthooden
dc.subjectSocial ontologyen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleSocial mereologyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorThe Leverhulme Trusten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Scienceen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/apa.2017.33
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberen


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