Shared agency : a planning theory of acting together / Michael E. Bratman

Author: Bratman, Michael
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Sociality and Planning Agency -- 1.Modest sociality and the continuity thesis -- 2.Shared intention, individual intention -- 3.I intend that we J: A first pass -- 4.Individual planning agency: roles and norms -- 5.Individual planning agency: Further ideas -- 6.Creature construction -- 7.Social functioning and social rationality -- 8.Constructivism about shared intention and modest sociality -- 9.Continuity, sufficiency, and Ockham's Razor -- 10.Deception, coercion, shared intentional, shared cooperative -- 2.Building Blocks, Part 1 -- 1.I intend that we J, and circularity -- 2.Interlocking and reflexive intentions -- 3.Intended mesh -- 4.Intending, expecting, and a disposition to help -- 5.Out in the open -- 3.Building Blocks, Part 2 -- 1.I intend that we J, and the own-action condition -- 2.The settle condition, and persistence interdependence -- 3.Persistence interdependence and overdetermination -- 4.Three forms of persistence interdependence -- 5.Persistence interdependence, etiology, and temporal asymmetry -- 6.Further building blocks -- 7.The connection condition and mutual responsiveness -- 8.Taking stock -- 4.A Construction of Modest Sociality -- 1.The basic thesis -- 2.The emergence of modest sociality -- 3.Modest sociality and strategic interaction -- 4.Quasi-Lockean social ties -- 5.Social networks -- 6.Treating as a means? -- 7.Deception and coercion revisited -- 8.The compressed basic thesis -- 9.Too demanding? -- 5.Modest Sociality and Mutual Obligation -- 1.Shared intention, social explanation -- 2.Shared intention, persistence interdependence, and mutual obligation -- 3.Gilbert on joint commitment -- 4.Normativity, sociality, and Ockham's Razor -- 6.Group Agents without Group Subjects -- 1.Group agents and the basic thesis -- 2.Group subjects? -- 7.Shared Deliberation, Common Ground -- 1.Shared deliberation and shared intention -- 2.Shared commitments to weights -- 3.Shared policies about weights -- 4.Where the group stands -- 5.Interdependence in policies about weights -- 6.Partiality and depth of shared policies about weights -- 7.Shared policies of acceptance -- 8.Shared policies of social rationality.

Summary

Human beings act together in characteristic ways that matter to us a great deal. This book explores the conceptual, metaphysical and normative foundations of such sociality. It argues that appeal to the planning structures involved in our individual, temporally extended agency provides substantial resources for understanding these foundations of our sociality.

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9780199351930 (ebook)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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