Corporate Insecthood
Whether the corporation should be considered a person is a matter of heated debate in legal and philosophical circles. In this talk, I examine whether, and in what ways, ordinary citizens might also conceptualize the corporation as a person. I present evidence that corporations are anthropomorphized, but only to a certain degree. Furthermore, corporations differ in the extent to which people are willing to grant them personhood, a pattern which is predicted by how ethical the corporation is. Finally, I show that corporate anthropomorphization has important downstream consequences in some domains (e.g. support for corporate civil rights) but bears little to no relation in others (e.g. belief in corporate moral responsibility).
Date:
4 March 2019, 17:15
Venue:
Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details:
Seminar Room 1
Speaker:
Dr Nina Strohminger (University of Pennsylvania)
Organising department:
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Organiser:
Dr Guy Kahane (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Guy Kahane (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://bookwhen.com/uehiro#focus=ev-sisn-20190304171500
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Rachel Gaminiratne
