No. 9 (2015): Joint Commitment: Collective Intentionality, Norms and Justice
Session 4. Just Joint Commitments

The Anatomy of Collusion

Published 2016-04-07

Keywords

  • complicity,
  • covert discrimination,
  • group injustice

How to Cite

Lauer, H. (2016). The Anatomy of Collusion. Phenomenology and Mind, (9), 182–191. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-18163

Abstract

Received models of cooperative action overlook the way that the social environment itself features in collective intentions; recognising the divergent ways that norms function can help explain how people collaborating covertly are not considered irrational even though the things they are doing are totally contrary to the principles and convictions they sustain as individual agents.