Institutional virtue: how consensus matters

Ziv, Anita Konzelmann

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“…In recent years, however, the concepts of virtue and vice have found increasingly broader applications. Nussbaum (2006) herself has started using virtue theory to study the flourishing of other species, and the advent of social ontology has seen a number of philosophers applying the concepts of virtue and vice to group agents (Beggs, 2003;Byerly & Byerly, 2016;de Bruin, 2015;Fricker, 2010Fricker, , 2013Fricker, , 2020Jones, 2007;Konzelmann Ziv, 2012;Lahroodi, 2007;Sandin, 2007).…”

Section: Collective Virtues Collective Vicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…144-66). 31 For other critical discussions of Fricker's account, see Byerly and Byerly (2016), Cordell (2017), andKonzelmann Ziv (2012).…”

Section: The Limitations Of a Plural Subject Accountmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analyzing the situationist challenge at the collective level, the focal point of my discussion will be the idea, defended at length in the previous chapter, that we can often characterize the collective character of group agents as virtuous or vicious in its own right. Indeed, a growing body of literature argues that group agents such as corporations and other organizations can realize virtuous or vicious character traits at the collective level (de Bruin, 2015;Fricker, 2010Fricker, , 2013Fricker, , 2020Konzelmann Ziv, 2012;Lahroodi, 2007;Sandin, 2007). According to this literature, group agents can instantiate such collective virtues and vices as open-mindedness, courage, and greed independently of the character of individual group members.…”

Section: Expanding the Situationist Challenge To Group Agentsmentioning

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“…On Aristotle's account of virtue, the flourishing agent excels as a friend, warrior, and citizenall roles that they may assume at one point or another. But an important disanalogy between individual and group agents is that the agency of groups is often limited to specific domains (Konzelmann Ziv, 2012). For instance, many jurisdictions restrict the agency of incorporated groups to the objectives explicitly stated in their articles of association.…”

Section: Expanding the Situationist Challenge To Group Agentsmentioning

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In the course of writing this dissertation on group character and jointly intentional activity, it has become abundantly clear that completing a Ph.D. is a profoundly social enterprise itself.Accordingly, I have been fortunate enough to experience a recurring theme in the literature on virtue ethics firsthand: flourishing in any social activity crucially depends on the support, wisdom, and goodwill of others. It is not surprising, then, that I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the many people who created the conditions enabling this research project to thrive.First of all, I owe warmest thanks to my primary supervisors, Boudewijn de Bruin and Miranda Fricker. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the Towards Professional Epistemic Justice project and work alongside such talented philosophers. You not only ensured that this project was off to a great start, but also kept it on track throughout.Managing a collaborative international research project cannot have been easy in the midst of a global pandemic, but despite all hardships you did an excellent job of making everyone involved stay connected. Thank you both for your support and encouragement.Boudewijn, I admire your philosophical rigor and your passion for applying cutting edge philosophical research to current affairs. Your detailed feedback on the many drafts of this dissertation has greatly contributed to the final product before you today. Thank you, also, for offering to collaborate with me on the Boeing chapter, and for the many other doors you have opened for me. Besides a great philosopher, you are a fantastic manager, never forgetting the people behind the work. These are lessons I will always carry with me.Miranda, your sharp philosophical insight and keen awareness of how philosophical problems pertain to contemporary social issues have inspired me from day one. The relevance of the field you pioneered fifteen years ago continues to prove itself every day, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to explore topics of justice, epistemology, and virtue under your supervision. Whenever I tangled myself (or my arguments) in a knot, you were invaluable in untangling them and helping me see the bigger picture. Thank you so much for all of your feedback and assistance during the last four years.During my two years at Sheffield University, I had the privilege of working with Paul Faulkner as my secondary supervisor. Paul, I am very grateful for your support, and for x detailed comments on chapters one and five of this dissertation. The brainstorming sessions we had together were incredibly fruitful, and your critical eye has been instrumental in sharpening the focus of my writing. Thank you also for being my main point of contact in Sheffield after Miranda's move to New York.As important as supervisors are, a Ph.D. cannot be completed unless it is approved by the assessment committee. Thank you, Heather Battaly, Lisa Herzog, Jeroen de Ridder, and Bob Stern, for taking the time to read this dissertation, and for subjecting it to rigo...

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Section: Collective Virtues Collective Vicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…144-66). 31 For other critical discussions of Fricker's account, see Byerly and Byerly (2016), Cordell (2017), andKonzelmann Ziv (2012).…”

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Section: Expanding the Situationist Challenge To Group Agentsmentioning

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Institutional Integrity: Its Meaning and Value

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Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism

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2016

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A body of work in ethics and epistemology has advanced a collectivist view of virtues. Collectivism holds that some social groups can be subjects in themselves which can possess attributes such as agency or responsibility. Collectivism about virtues holds that virtues (and vices) are among those attributes. By focusing on two different accounts, I argue that the collectivist virtue project has limited prospects. On one such interpretation of institutional virtues, virtue-like features of the social collective are explained by particular group-oriented features of individual role-bearers that are elicited by institutional structures or goals. On another account of groups as moral agents unbound by formal institutional constraints, to the extent that group characteristics meet the collectivist requirement, they fail to stand up as virtues in the substantive sense of a character trait. These two positions' respective drawbacks and insights support a non-collectivist conclusion: Where there is a substantive virtue of some social group, it consists only in certain group-specific attitudes and motives of individuals qua members of that group. I end by outlining some risks in adopting collectivism about virtues as an explanatory or normative doctrine, and suggesting that we can abandon it without embracing an equally undesirable individualism in virtue theory.

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Institutional virtue: how consensus matters

Cited by 8 publications

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