Böcker av Margaret Gilbert

Life in Groups develops and applies Margaret Gilbert's influential perspective on topics to do with joint commitment: collective beliefs and intentions; rational choice and preference; group lies and corporate misbehavior; remorse and other emotions; rights, obligations, and freedom.

"The poet's work to establish agency in the midst of sickness is so clear and hard fought, that one is filled with admiration and wonderment at the ability to carry the reader so deep into her journey with all of its subcurrents."-MARY STEWART HAMMOND, author of Out of Canaan (W.W. Norton, 1991) & Entering History (W.W. Norton, 2016)"These poems interrogate seizure disorder and recovery, its spectrum, the people around it, family, community. In those waters swim a sense of history, distortion, victimhood, the inevitability of scapegoating, in fact, discrimination and racism. The poems themselves seize. Their strongest light is their willingness to inhabit the very "kindling" of the neurons, "the highway clothed in goldenrod." Indeed, as the poet writes in "Blue Electrode," the title poem, "Yes, my mother thinks to herself/ tying her torn scarf,/ the words Epilepsy and Woe/ are synonymous."-RALPH BURNS, author of but not yet (Lynx House Press, 2017) Winner of The Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, & Ghost Notes (Oberlin College Press, 2000), Winner of The Field Poetry Prize

This collection of essays develops the theory of social groups as "plural subjects". Gilbert argues that one must go beyond the prevailing "game theoretic" picture of people acting as independent individuals, to incorporate them as plural subjects bound together by joint commitments.

This text develops and extends the application of Margaret Gilbert's plural subject theory of human sociality, first introduced in her earlier works "On Social Facts" and "Living Together". It presents accounts of social rules, scientific change, political obligation, and collective remorse.

Develops an analyses of a number of central everyday concepts of social phenomena, including shared action, a social convention, a group's belief, and a group itself. This book proposes that the core social phenomena among human beings are "plural subject" phenomena.