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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 and Obligation

2006
AbstractJoint 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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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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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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Generating states of joint commitment between autonomous agents

1998
Autonomous agents decide for themselves, on the basis of their beliefs, goals, etc., how to act in an environment. However, it is often the case that an agent is motivated to achieve some goal, where its achievement is only possible, made easier, or satisfied more completely, by gaining the collaboration of others.
Timothy J. Norman, Nicholas R. Jennings
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Joint Commitments

The Journal of Ethics, 2002
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Joint Commitment

2017
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Commitment and Agency Management in Joint Action

2016
Aurélie Clodic, John Michael
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Joint Commitment of Generation Units and Heat Exchange Stations for Combined Heat and Power Systems

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2020
Chenhui Lin, Wenchuan Wu, Mohammad Shahidehpour   +2 more
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