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Gilbert's other books include ''Living Together: Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation'' (1996), ''Sociality and Responsibility: New Essays in Plural Subject Theory'' (2000), ''Marcher Ensemble: Essais sur les Fondations de la Vie Collective'' (2003), and ''A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society'' (2006). In ''On Social Facts'' she presented accounts of a number of central social phenomena. These include social conventions, social groups in a central sense of the term, group languages, Collective Belief , and acting together. She argued that these were all 'plural subject phenomena'. She defines a 'plural subject' in terms a special kind of commitment: a joint commitment. When people are jointly committed in some way they constitute, by definition, a plural subject. In subsequent writings Gilbert has continued the development and application of her plural subject theory. Topics she has addressed include political obligation, collective moral responsibility, agreements and promises, collective emotions, and shared values. She has presented accounts of all of these in terms of joint commitment. She was married to noted philosopher Saul Kripke and is the sister of famed British historian Sir Martin Gilbert . |
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