Phänomenologie der digitalen Welt

Sommerschule der Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung

Repository | Zeitschrift | Band | Artikel

238186

Group beliefs

Raimo Tuomela

pp. 285-318

Abstrakt

It is argued in this paper that there can be both ‘normative’ and ‘nonnormative, merely factual group beliefs. The former involve the whole social group in question, while the latter only relate to the distributions of personal beliefs within the group. The paper develops a detailed theory, called the positional account of group beliefs, to explicate normative, group-involving group beliefs. Normative group beliefs are characterized within this approach in terms of joint acceptances of views by the group members — or their representatives — acting in their right positions and tasks, and in a sense creating group commitments for all the members to accept (and keep accepting) the view in question. Also ‘aggregate’ accounts of group belief are considered in the paper, especially the ‘shared we-belief’ approach. Such aggregate accounts purport to account for merely factual group beliefs.

Publication details

Published in:

(1992) Synthese 91 (3).

Seiten: 285-318

DOI: 10.1007/BF00413570

Referenz:

Tuomela Raimo (1992) „Group beliefs“. Synthese 91 (3), 285–318.