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Joint Commitment: What It Is and Why It Matters

open access: yesPhenomenology 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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May Joint Commitment Stabilize Modus Vivendi?

open access: yesPhenomenology 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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Revisiting the Relationship between Arguing and Convincing: Towards a New Pragmatic Account

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
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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International Practice of Human Rights as Legal Demand-Rights: A Critical Approach

open access: yesAge of Human Rights Journal, 2022
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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Joint actions, commitments and the need to belong [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 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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A Phenomenology of Social Stances

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2016
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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Joint Commitment [PDF]

open access: yesProtoSociology, 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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Fact of Reason, Social Facts, and Evidence

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2018
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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Research ethics and participatory research in an interdisciplinary technology-enhanced learning project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This account identifies some of the tensions that became apparent in a large interdisciplinary technology-enhanced learning project as its members attempted to maintain their commitment to responsive, participatory research and development in ...
Carmichael, Patrick, Tracy, Frances
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Joint Commitment and Collective Belief: a Revisionary Proposal

open access: yesPhenomenology 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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