Peter A French
Biographic Data
| ID | 1131916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter A French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter A |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Corporate Moral Agency
The article summarizes the theory that corporations and corporate‐like entities can satisfy the conditions of being intentional actors and qualify as moral agents to which moral principles and rules apply and be held morally responsible for what they do. The theory is an alternative to the methodological individualist's interpretation of corporations as merely contractual relations between human moral agents with no moral status of their own. It …
Self-Blaming, Repentance, and Atonement
Inference gaps in moral assessment
The paper is divided into three parts. In the first an argument is made that negative moral assessments of institutions are insufficient bases from which to infer similar negative moral assessments of the actions of the organizations that embody those institutions or the individuals that perform institution-constituted actions within those institutions. The second part re-examines arguments for organizational intentionality and hence organization…
Geographies of Responsibility
Responsibility Matters
Why did Wittgenstein read Tagore to the Vienna Circle
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Explores the philosophy of corporate responsibility in in terms of collective vs individualist theory. It reports and defends distinctions among collectivities that run counter to individualist theory, develops a theory of the corporation as a moral person, and provides applications of the theory to actual cases.
Kinds and Persons
The Scope of Morality
The Scope of Morality was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everyt…
The scope of morality
The scope of morality
The Scope of Morality
The Scope of Morality was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The scope of morality, Peter A. French contends, is much narrower than many traditional and contemporary works in ethical theory suggest. We trivialize morality if we think it has something to say about everyt…
Kinds and Persons
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Explores the philosophy of corporate responsibility in in terms of collective vs individualist theory. It reports and defends distinctions among collectivities that run counter to individualist theory, develops a theory of the corporation as a moral person, and provides applications of the theory to actual cases.
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Why did Wittgenstein read Tagore to the Vienna Circle
Responsibility Matters
Geographies of Responsibility
Inference gaps in moral assessment
The paper is divided into three parts. In the first an argument is made that negative moral assessments of institutions are insufficient bases from which to infer similar negative moral assessments of the actions of the organizations that embody those institutions or the individuals that perform institution-constituted actions within those institutions. The second part re-examines arguments for organizational intentionality and hence organization…
Self-Blaming, Repentance, and Atonement
Corporate Moral Agency
The article summarizes the theory that corporations and corporate‐like entities can satisfy the conditions of being intentional actors and qualify as moral agents to which moral principles and rules apply and be held morally responsible for what they do. The theory is an alternative to the methodological individualist's interpretation of corporations as merely contractual relations between human moral agents with no moral status of their own. It …
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethics in Business and Education (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · General interest (2 works)