A Package of Views

Abstract

I introduce the existing debate between summative and non-summative accounts of group doxastic states. I extend the distinction between summative/non-summative accounts of group doxastic states to the other phenomena discussed in the book: group evidence, the basis of group belief, what it is for a group to act for a reason, and group ignorance. I then argue for a range of linking claims, showing how non-summativism about one group phenomenon motivates non-summativism about others. In the rest of the book, I defend a non-summative package of views by providing a range of independent arguments for non-summativism about key group phenomena, arguments that don’t appeal to the relevant linking claims.