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Analysis of the cognitive processes involved in creating and sustaining cooperative group activity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 A cooperative group activity (CGA) and shared intentionality are two phenomena whereby two or more individuals engage in an activity with the intention that the group will succeed, that is, to act as a “we.
Simon Skau, Simon Skau
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Eliminating Group Agency [PDF]
Economics and Philosophy, 2021 AbstractAggregating individuals’ consistent attitudes might produce inconsistent collective attitudes. Some groups therefore need the capacity to form attitudes that are irreducible to those of their members. Such groups, group-agent realists argue, are agents in control of their own attitude formation.
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Sole agency vs multi-agency: An investigation of agency practice across England and Wales [PDF]
, 2009 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of different agency practice on agency fees, business efficiency, and housing market liquidity.
Isaac, David +5 more
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Organisations as Computing Systems
Journal of Social Ontology, 2021 Organisations are computing systems. The university’s sports centre is a computing system for managing sports teams and facilities. The tenure committee is a computing system for assigning tenure status.
Strohmaier David
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Group Agency and Artificial Intelligence [PDF]
Philosophy & Technology, 2021 AbstractThe aim of this exploratory paper is to review an under-appreciated parallel between group agency and artificial intelligence. As both phenomena involve non-human goal-directed agents that can make a difference to the social world, they raise some similar moral and regulatory challenges, which require us to rethink some of our anthropocentric ...
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The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility
Journal of Social Ontology, 2020 Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to
Hirvonen Onni
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Two theories of group agency [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2019 Two theories dominate the current debate on group agency: functionalism, as endorsed by Bryce Huebner and Brian Epstein, and interpretivism, as defended by Deborah Tollefsen, and Christian List and Philip Pettit. In this paper, I will give a new argument to favour functionalism over interpretivism.
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Precis of Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals
Journal of Social Ontology, 2022 This paper provides an overview of Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals.
Stephanie Collins
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The "Sound of Power": Investigating Polyphone Actions and the Perception of Polyphony
Transposition, 2011 This article considers polyphony from an action-theoretical angle. The notion of polyphony can be used for a comprehensive philosophical account of human agency, especially group agency.
Beatrice Kobow
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Child mortality estimation 2013: an overview of updates in estimation methods by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 In September 2013, the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) published an update of the estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) and under-five deaths for all countries.
Leontine Alkema +5 more
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