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In certain philosophical traditions (particularly those established by Hegel and Marx), human agency is a collective, historical dynamic, rather than a function arising out of individual behavior. Hegel's Geist and Marx's universal class are idealist and materialist expressions of this idea of humans treated as social beings, organized to act ...
Dubreuil, Benoit. and B. Hardy-Vallee. "Collective Agency: From Intuitions to Mechanisms." A mechanistic view of collective agency; Gilbert, Margaret. "What Is It for Us to Intend?", in Contemporary Action Theory, vol. 2: The Philosophy and Logic of Social Action, ed. G. Holmstrom-Hintikka and R. Tuomela, 65–85. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic ...
Ludwig works in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Action.He is best known for his work on natural language semantics in the tradition of Donald Davidson, his interpretation of the work of Donald Davidson with Ernest Lepore, [3] [4] his work on collective action, shared intention, and institutional agency, [5] [6] and his work on the ...
In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. Social structure consists of those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit agents and their decisions. [1]
Specifically, human agency operates within three modes: [23] Individual Agency: A person’s own influence on the environment; Proxy Agency: Another person’s effort on securing the individual’s interests; Collective Agency: A group of people work together to achieve the common benefits. Human agency has four core properties: [23]
[2] [3] His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson [4] [5] (whose lectures at the Collège de France he attended), and later William James. His notion of the power of myth in collective agency inspired socialists, anarchists, Marxists, and fascists. [6]
The collective action theory was first published by Mancur Olson in 1965. Olson argues that any group of individuals attempting to provide a public good has difficulty doing so efficiently. Olson argues that any group of individuals attempting to provide a public good has difficulty doing so efficiently.
The term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone. The ideal solution is then to undertake this as a collective action, the cost of which is shared.