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May Joint Commitment Stabilize Modus Vivendi?
Phenomenology and Mind, 2016 This contribution intends to extend my previous attempt to defend modus vivendi as an alternative way to include people who do not share the essentials of a liberal society.
Roberta Sala
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Bonobos engage in joint commitment. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Bonobos reengage partners after interruptions of social activities, suggesting that they engage in joint commitment.
Heesen R +6 more
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Joint Commitment: What It Is and Why It Matters
Phenomenology and Mind, 2016 There is reason to think that a particular concept of joint commitment informs much human behavior. This paper introduces the concept in question and briefly develops one argument for its centrality in human life.
Margaret Gilbert
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Joint actions, commitments and the need to belong [PDF]
Synthese, 2020 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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The Compass of Commitment: Control Mechanisms Underpinning the Sense of Individual and Joint Commitment. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract The sense of commitment directs us toward our goals, shielding us from distractions and temptations, and thereby facilitates a wide range of cooperative activities and institutions characteristic of our species. Building upon recent research, this paper identifies cognitive, motivational, and social factors that elicit or ...
Kaufmann A, Fanghella M, Michael J.
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ProtoSociology, 2018 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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Shared Agency on Gilbert and deep continuity
Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 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
Phenomenology and Mind, 2016 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
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2018 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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Intuitions about joint commitment
Philosophical Psychology, 2022 In what sense is commitment essential to joint action, and do the participants in a joint action themselves perceive commitment as essential? Attempts to answer this question have so far been hampered by clashes of intuition. Perhaps this is because the intuitions in question have mostly been investigated using informal methods only.
Michael J., Butterfill S.
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