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From Simple to Composite Agency: On Kirk Ludwig's From Individual to Plural Agency
2019
Journal of Social Ontology
According to Kirk Ludwig, only primitive actions are actions in a primary and non-derivative sense of the term 'action'. Ludwig takes this to imply that the notion of collective action is a façon de parler – useful perhaps, but secondary and derivative. I argue that, on the contrary, collective actions are actions in the primary and non-derivative sense. First, this is because some primitive actions are collective actions. Secondly, individual and collective composites of primitive actions are
doi:10.1515/jso-2019-0023
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