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1. In “The Corporation as a Moral Person, ”1 I argued that certain business corporations may be properly conceived of as intentional agents.
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Peter A. French, “The Corporation as a Moral Person,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 16 (1979), 207–215.
Hilary Putnam, “Meaning, and Reference,” The Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1973), 699–711,
reprinted in Stephen P. Schwartz, Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), p. 119–132. References are to the Schwartz volume.
Hilary Putnam, “Is Semantics Possible?” Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds, p.104.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Book III, Chapter VI.
Julius Moravcsik, “How Do Words Get Their Meaning?” The Journal of Philosophy, 78 (1981), 5–24
John Dupre, “Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa,” Philosophical Review (1981), 66–90.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), pp. 139–173.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 158.
Putnam, “Meaning and Reference,” op. cit.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 160.
Hilary Putnam, Meaning and the Moral Sciences (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), p. 62.
Hilary Putnam, Meaning and the Moral Sciences (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978), p.63.
See Putnam, “Meaning and Reference,” for a full account of this example.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 161.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 162
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 162
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 161.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 167.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 161.
David Wiggins, “Locke, Butler and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as a Natural Kind” The Identities of Persons, Amelie Rorty, ed., (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 161.
This approach is suggested and defended by Patricia Kitcher, “Natural Kinds and Unnatural Persons,” Philosophy, 54 (1979), 541–547.
Hotchkiss v The National City Bank, 200 F. 287 at 293 (SDNY, 1911).
One particularly fruitful way may be to do so in terms of what Moravcsik calls aitiational frames. See Moravcsik, op. cit.
See French, The Scope of Morality (chap. 1). Also Donald Davidson “Agency,” Agent, Action, and Reason, ed. Binkley, Bronaugh, and Marros (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1971), pp. 26–37.
As an example see John Danley, “Corporate Moral Agency: The Case for Anthropological Bigotry,” Bowling Green State University Conference in Applied Philosophy, 1980.
See footnote 1.
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French, P.A. (1988). Kinds and Persons. In: Goodman, M.F. (eds) What Is a Person?. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3950-5_16
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