Search Results - "Hindriks, Frank"

Establishments as Material rather than Immaterial Objects by Hindriks, Frank A.

“…When people go shopping, they enter a building. But the shop cannot be identified with the building, because it would remain the same shop if it moved to…”
Get full text

Who Wants to Grant Robots Rights? by De Graaf, Maartje M A, Hindriks, Frank A, Hindriks, Koen V

“…The robot rights debate has thus far proceeded without any reliable data concerning the public opinion about robots and the rights they should have. We have…”
Get full text

A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions by Steg, Linda, Perlaviciute, Goda, Sovacool, Benjamin K., Bonaiuto, Marino, Diekmann, Andreas, Filippini, Massimo, Hindriks, Frank, Bergstad, Cecilia Jacobbson, Matthies, Ellen, Matti, Simon, Mulder, Machiel, Nilsson, Andreas, Pahl, Sabina, Roggenkamp, Martha, Schuitema, Geertje, Stern, Paul C., Tavoni, Massimo, Thøgersen, John, Woerdman, Edwin

“…The Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have a key role to play in understanding which factors and policies would motivate, encourage and enable different…”
Get full text

Money: What It Is and What It Should Be by Hindriks, Frank, Sandberg, Joakim

Get full text

Tractability assumptions and the Musgrave-Mäki typology by Hindriks, Frank A.

“…Musgrave ( 1981 ) proposed a typology of assumptions, developed further by Mäki ( 2000 ), to defend the idea that the truth of assumptions is often important…”
Get full text

Sustainable Institutions: How to Secure Values by Hindriks, Frank

“…Social sustainability plays a prominent role in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, but a proper analysis of the concept is still lacking…”
Get full text

Rules, Equilibria and Virtual Control: How to Explain Persistence, Resilience and Fragility by Hindriks, Frank

“…Institutions are often regarded either as rules or as equilibria sustained by self-interested agents. I ask how these two theories can be combined. According…”
Get full text

The problem of insignificant hands by Hindriks, Frank

“…Many morally significant outcomes can be brought about only if several individuals contribute to them. However, individual contributions to collective outcomes…”
Get full text

The Social Construction of Collective Moral Agency by Hindriks, Frank

“…Moral agents possess a moral point of view: they have a moral identity or a moral self-conception. This implies that, in order for an organization to be a…”
Get full text

The Problem of Collective Harm: A Threshold Solution by Hindriks, Frank

“…Many harms are collective: they are due to several individual actions that are as such harmless. At least in some cases, it seems impermissible to contribute…”
Get full text

The Problem of Collective Harm: A Threshold Solution by Hindriks, Frank

“…Many harms are collective: they are due to several individual actions that are as such harmless. At least in some cases, it seems impermissible to contribute…”
Get full text

The functions of institutions: etiology and teleology by Hindriks, Frank, Guala, Francesco

“…Institutions generate cooperative benefits that explain why they exist and persist. Therefore, their etiological function is to promote cooperation. The…”
Get full text

Unifying Theories of institutions: a critique of Pettit's Virtual Control Theory by Hindriks, Frank

“…To unify rival theories is to combine their key insights into a single coherent framework. It is often achieved by integrating the theories and forging new…”
Get full text

Unobservability, tractability and the battle of assumptions by Hindriks, Frank A.

“…Economic models often include unrealistic assumptions. This does not mean, however, that economists lack a concern for the truth of their assumptions…”
Get full text

Ontological Holism Without Mental Holism by Frank Hindriks

“…In his recent book Shared and Institutional Agency, Bratman (2022) argues that institutional agents consist of social rules of procedure. Those rules are…”
Get full text

Collective Agency: Moral and Amoral by Hindriks, Frank

“…Proponents of corporate moral responsibility have provided a number of accounts of moral collective agency. But these accounts do not shed light on how a…”
Get full text

How Social Objects (Fail to) Function by Hindriks, Frank

Get full text

When to Start Saving the Planet? by Hindriks, Frank

“…People should take immediate action to prevent climate harms. Although intuitive, this claim faces two important problems. First, no individual can avert a…”
Get full text

The risks of autonomous machines: from responsibility gaps to control gaps by Hindriks, Frank, Veluwenkamp, Herman

“…Responsibility gaps concern the attribution of blame for harms caused by autonomous machines. The worry has been that, because they are artificial agents, it…”
Get full text

The Duty to Join Forces: When Individuals Lack Control by Hindriks, Frank

“…Some harms are such that they cannot be prevented by a single individual because she lacks the requisite control. Because of this, no individual has the…”
Get full text