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Experiencing coordination and commitment in joint action: a cross-cultural qualitative study
Previous research provides evidence that, in the context of joint action, individuals’ sense of commitment sustains their motivation to persist and to resist temptations and distractions.
John Michael +3 more
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International Practice of Human Rights as Legal Demand-Rights: A Critical Approach
Margaret Gilbert’s approach to human rights asserts that these are demand-rights that may be moral or legal. As legal rights, human rights result exclusively from an international practice in which States hold a leading position.
Johnny Antonio Dávila
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Revisiting the Relationship between Arguing and Convincing: Towards a New Pragmatic Account
How do individuals change their minds as a result of argumentation? It is generally assumed the speech act of argumentation can trigger a change of mind in the other party—the perlocutionary act of convincing.
Eugen Octav Popa
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Joint actions, commitments and the need to belong [PDF]
This paper concerns the credibility problem for commitments. Commitments play an important role in cooperative human interactions and can dramatically improve the performance of joint actions by stabilizing expectations, reducing the uncertainty of the interaction, providing reasons to cooperate or improving action coordination.
Víctor Fernández Castro +1 more
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A Phenomenology of Social Stances
The paper develops a phenomenology of social stances, trying to show that Margaret Gilbert’s work on joint commitments can be understood as a special case of what here presented. The offered conceptualization shows that “to accept” is an important moment
Gian Paolo Terravecchia
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I defend some of Gilbert’s central claims about our capacity jointly to commit ourselves, and what follows from an exercise of it. I argue that, to explain these claims, we do not need to suppose, as Gilbert does, that we ever are jointly committed, that is, jointly in a state of being committed.
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Fact of Reason, Social Facts, and Evidence
The place of evidence regarding joint commitment and plural action is mostly reserved for documents and explicit linguistic expressions. This paper considers the problem of evidence in cases of engaged (jointly committed) social acts where there is no ...
Petar Bojanić, Igor Cvejić
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Shared Agency on Gilbert and deep continuity
I compare Bratman’s theory with Gilbert’s. I draw attention to their similarities, query Bratman’s claim that his theory is the more parsimonious, and point to one theoretical advantage of Gilbert’s theory.
Smith Thomas H.
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Joint Commitment and Collective Belief: a Revisionary Proposal
According to Margaret Gilbert, two or more people collectively believe that p if and only if they are jointly committed to believe that p as a body. But the way she construes joint commitment in her account – as a commitment of and by the several parties
Leo Townsend
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Shared Intention Is Not Joint Commitment
Margaret Gilbert has long defended the view that, roughly speaking, agents share the intention to perform an action if and only if they jointly commit to performing that action. This view has proven both influential and controversial. While some authors have raised concerns over the joint commitment view of shared intention, including at times offering
Matthew Kopec, Seumas Miller
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