Many theorists have defended the claim that collective entities can attain
genuine agential status. If collectives can be agents, this opens up a further
question: can they be conscious? That is, is there something that it is like to
be them? Eric Schwitzgebel (Philosophical Studies 172: 1697–1721, 2015) argues
that yes, collective entities (including the United States, taken as a whole),
may well... hiện toàn bộ