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Joint Commitment and Group Belief

2023
Abstract This chapter responds to a range of questions posed by sociologist Annette Schnabel with respect to the author’s joint commitment account of group belief along with other aspects of group life. Some questions concern the contrast between joint commitment and personal commitment, the contexts in which joint commitments are likely
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Joint Projects without Commitment

The Review of Economic Studies, 1991
This paper concerns the pattern of contributions to a joint project when commitments and enforceable contracts are not available. We analyse a game in which partners alternate in making contributions to the project until the project is completed. Contributions are sunk when they are made. The game has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium path, which is
Admati, Anat R., Perry, Motty
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Children’s Developing Commitments to Joint Goals

Child Development, 2012
Abstract This study investigated young children’s commitment to a joint goal by assessing whether peers in collaborative activities continue to collaborate until all received their rewards. Forty-eight 2.5- and 3.5-year-old children worked on an apparatus dyadically. One child got access to her reward early. For the partner to benefit
Hamann, Katharina, Warneken, Felix, Tomasello, Michael   +2 more
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Mesenchymal Commitment to Digital Joint Formation

Annals of Plastic Surgery, 1995
Temporal and spatial commitment of in vivo and in vitro mammalian digital joint development were characterized in a murine model. Alcian blue and alizarin red staining were used to label proteoglycans of cartilage matrix and mineralized matrix in both whole mounts and histological sections. Mesenchymal differentiation toward a joint fate was identified
G T, Ginsburg, D, Royster, G, Kassabian, C F, Shuler, W R, Dougherty, A C, Sank   +5 more
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Obligation and Joint Commitment

Utilitas, 1999
We speak of ‘obligations’ in many contexts. But what are obligations? I argue that obligations of an important type inhere in what I call ‘joint commitments’. I propose a joint commitment account of everyday agreements. This could explain why some philosophers believe that we know of the obligating nature of agreements a priori.
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Saving a dental residency: a joint commitment

Special Care in Dentistry, 1985
SummaryThe ability of the hospital to financially sustain a quality dental residency program depends on achieving the required increase in the volume of patients and the appropriate payer mix proportions. Although the importance of achieving financial viability places the program at a continuing risk, the dental department and the hospital's ...
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The Ubiquity of Joint Commitment

2018
After noting that joint commitments can be made gradually and by more subtle means than those constitutive of agreements and promises, and that they may obtain in large populations spread over great distances, this chapter argues that many central social phenomena other than agreements and promises are constituted by joint commitments with associated ...
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Joint Commitment Contractualism

Journal of Moral Philosophy
Abstract On the relational conception of morality, the question of what we ought, morally, to do is understood as a question of how we ought to regulate our moral relations with one another. Despite its attractions, the philosophical foundations of the relational view are notoriously hard to make precise.
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Shared Intentionality, joint commitment, and directed obligation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020
Abstract Tomasello frequently refers to joint commitment, but does not fully characterize it. In earlier publications, I have offered a detailed account of joint commitment, tying it to a sense that the parties form a “we,” and arguing that it grounds directed obligations and rights.
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Religion, Media, and Joint Commitment

2019
Drawing on the example of Jehovah’s Witnesses, in this contribution I will explore the role of media in the production of religious commitment. I will argue that, while providing important insights into the relationship between media interpretation and media use, the popular concept of ‘religious-social shaping of technology’ (Campbell) risks producing
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