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Joint Commitment and Group Belief
2023Abstract 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, 1991This 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, 2012Abstract 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 +2 more
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Mesenchymal Commitment to Digital Joint Formation
Annals of Plastic Surgery, 1995Temporal 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
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Obligation and Joint Commitment
Utilitas, 1999We 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, 1985SummaryThe 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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Joint Commitment and Obligation
2006AbstractJoint commitments are compared and contrasted with personal decisions and intentions: all are in some sense commitments of the will. They provide one with sufficient reason for action, independently of one’s inclinations and self-interest. Aspects of joint commitment discussed include their formation, basic and non-basic cases, and ways of ...
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The Ubiquity of Joint Commitment
2018After 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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Shared Intentionality, joint commitment, and directed obligation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020Abstract 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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