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Methodological Individualism, the We-mode, and Team Reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Raimo Tuomela is one of the pioneers of social action theory and has done as much as anyone over the last thirty years to advance the study of social action and collective intentionality. Social Ontology: Collective Intentionality and Group Agents (2013)
BD Bernheim   +8 more
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Can the Mind Wander Intentionally? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Mind wandering is typically operationalized as task-unrelated thought. Some argue for the need to distinguish between unintentional and intentional mind wandering, where an agent voluntarily shifts attention from task-related to task-unrelated thoughts ...
Krasich, Kristina, Murray, Samuel
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Joint action and spontaneity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 167-182, March 2025.
Abstract This paper poses a challenge to theories of joint action. In addition to the typical requirement of explaining how agents count as acting together as opposed to acting in parallel or independently—the togetherness requirement—it is argued that theories must explain how agents can be spontaneously joined such that they can act together ...
Alexander Leferman
wiley   +1 more source

Why cognitivism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Intention Cognitivism – the doctrine that intending to V entails, or even consists in, believing that one will V – is an important position with potentially wide-ranging implications, such as a revisionary understanding of practical reason, and a ...
Levy, Yair
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Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The question of whether machines can be creative has been at the centre of debates among scholars and practitioners well before the inception of artificial intelligence (AI) as a recognised field of research. This paper reviews how some of the key thinkers in the fields of creativity and AI have approached this question, contextualising their ...
Caterina Moruzzi
wiley   +1 more source

Morality, Friendship, and Collective Action

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology
This paper uses the tools of experimental philosophy to examine the nature of interpersonal normativity in collective action, focusing on cases of immoral collective action and collective action by friends.
Javier Gomez-Lavin, Matthew Rachar
doaj   +1 more source

What is social organizing?

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 460-496, March 2025.
Abstract While scholars of, and participants in, social movements, electoral politics, and organized labor are deeply engaged in contrasting different theories of how political actors should organize, little recent philosophical work has asked what social organizing is.
Megan Hyska
wiley   +1 more source

Good Intentions and the Road to Hell [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
G.E.M. Anscombe famously remarked that an adequate philosophy of psychology was needed before we could do ethics.  Fifty years have passed, and we should now ask what significance our best theories of the psychology of agency have for moral philosophy ...
Paul, Sarah K.
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Bratman, Searle, and Simplicity. A comment on Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2014
Michael Bratman’s work is established as one of the most important philosophical approaches to group agency so far, and Shared Agency, A Planning Theory of Acting Together confirms that impression. In this paper I attempt to challenge the book’s central
Björn Petersson
doaj  

What May I Hope? Why It Can Be Rational to Rely on One’s Hope [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In hoping, what is important to us seems possible, which makes our life appear meaningful and motivates us to do everything within our reach to bring about the things that we hope for.
Sabine, Döring
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