Book chapter
Corporate Identity
Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self, pp.203-215
Advances in experimental philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic
2022
DOI: 10.5040/9781350246928.0019
Abstract
Certain types of collectives count as people under the law. These “legal people” can do things—like pollute the environment or mislabel addictive medications—that subject them to sanction. Any effort to pair harms in the world with responsible collectives must draw on a theory of collective identity. The fact that collectives can be so dynamic—routinely exchanging parts, splitting and merging, changing ownership, and reworking basic operating procedures—complicates any effort to give a principled account. This chapter focuses on business corporations as a salient collective whose identity conditions have far-reaching impact. The law implicitly encodes a vision of corporate identity in its doctrines for assessing corporate liability. Experimental philosophy suggests that common intuition endorses a different view. This chapter discusses both and the significance of the discrepancy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Corporate Identity
- Creators
- Mihailis E. Diamantis
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self, pp.203-215
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; London
- Series
- Advances in experimental philosophy
- DOI
- 10.5040/9781350246928.0019
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984530388402771
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