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The Curious Case of Ronald McDonald’s Claim to Rights: An Ontological Account of Differences in Group and Individual Person Rights

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>22/02/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Social Ontology
Issue number1
Volume4
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Performative accounts of personhood argue that group agents are persons, fit to be held responsible within the social sphere. Nonetheless, these accounts want to retain a moral distinction between group and individual persons. That: (1) Group-persons can be responsible for their actions qua persons, but that (2) group-persons might nonetheless not have rights equivalent to those of human persons. I present an argument which makes sense of this disanalogy, without recourse to normative claims or additional ontological commitments. I instead ground rights in the different relations in which performative persons stand in relation to one another.

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Winner of the 2016 Essay Competition of the International Social Ontology Society