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Gilbert was born in the United Kingdom and obtained a "double first" B.A. degree in Classics and Philosophy from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. degree in Philosophy from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]. From 1983 until 2006, she taught at the [[University of Connecticut, Storrs]], where she was Professor of Philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/gilbert/gilbert.html|title=Margaret Gilbert Professor of Philosophy|accessdate=28 January 2013}}</ref> As of Fall 2006, she holds the Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at the [[University of California, Irvine]]. She has been a visiting teacher and researcher at many academic institutions including [[Princeton University]], the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]], [[Wolfson College, Oxford]], [[Technische Universität Dresden]], [[King's College London]], and the [[Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences]], and regularly gives invited lectures in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Gilbert was married to noted philosopher [[Saul Kripke]] and is the sister of famed British historian Sir [[Martin Gilbert]]. In 2016, Margaret Gilbert was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref>https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c</ref> |
Gilbert was born in the United Kingdom and obtained a "double first" B.A. degree in Classics and Philosophy from [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. degree in Philosophy from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]]. From 1983 until 2006, she taught at the [[University of Connecticut, Storrs]], where she was Professor of Philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/gilbert/gilbert.html|title=Margaret Gilbert Professor of Philosophy|accessdate=28 January 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809192632/http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/gilbert/gilbert.html|archivedate=9 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As of Fall 2006, she holds the Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at the [[University of California, Irvine]]. She has been a visiting teacher and researcher at many academic institutions including [[Princeton University]], the [[Institute for Advanced Study]], the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]], [[Wolfson College, Oxford]], [[Technische Universität Dresden]], [[King's College London]], and the [[Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences]], and regularly gives invited lectures in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Gilbert was married to noted philosopher [[Saul Kripke]] and is the sister of famed British historian Sir [[Martin Gilbert]]. In 2016, Margaret Gilbert was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref>https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c</ref> |
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Margaret Gilbert (born 1942) is a British philosopher best known for her work in the philosophy of social science, and, more specifically, for her founding contributions to the analytic philosophy of social phenomena. She has also made substantial contributions to other philosophical fields including political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and in ethics. She writes in the English language.
Life
Gilbert was born in the United Kingdom and obtained a "double first" B.A. degree in Classics and Philosophy from
Works
In her book On Social Facts (1989) Gilbert presented novel accounts of a number of central social phenomena in the context of critical reflections on proposals by the founders of sociology
In subsequent writings Gilbert has continued the development and application of her plural subject theory. Each of the essay collections 'Living Together" (1996), 'Sociality and Responsibility' (2000) and 'Marcher Ensemble' (in French) (2003) is composed of relevant papers authored by Gilbert.
In her book 'A Theory of Political Obligation' (2006; 2008) Gilbert offers a new perspective on a classical problem in political philosophy, generally known as 'the' problem of political obligation. As Gilbert makes clear in her book, there are many versions of this problem. She addresses the question whether there is something about one's being the member of a particular society that means one is obligated to uphold the political institutions of that society. Unlike most contemporary writers on the subject, she does not insist that the obligation in question is a matter of moral requirement. Gilbert argues that there are obligations of a different sort, and that these that are a function of membership in a political society construed as membership in a particular kind of plural subject constituted, as are all plural subjects, by a joint commitment.
Other topics Gilbert has addressed in one or more of her publications include agreements and promises, authority, collective emotions, collective responsibility, personal decisions and intentions, marital love, mutual recognition, patriotism, rights (in particular claim-rights), shared attention, shared values, social rules, and social unity.
Gilbert's essay collection Joint Commitment (2014) contains eighteen recent papers that together address most of the topics in the above list along with several others that Gilbert argues can be illuminated by an appeal to joint commitment.
Selected publications
Books
- On Social Facts, London, New York: Routledge, (1989, Reprinted 1992)
- Living Together: Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD. (1996)
- Sociality and Responsibility: New Essays in Plural Subject Theory, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD. (2000)
- Marcher Ensemble: Essais sur les Fondements des Phenomenes Collectifs, Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, France, (2003)
- A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society, Oxford University Press: Oxford (2006)(2008)
- Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World, Oxford University Press: New York (2014).
See also
References
- ^ "Margaret Gilbert Professor of Philosophy". Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
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- ^ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/convention/#GilPluSub
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