On collective intentions: collective action in economics and philosophy |
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Authors: | Nicholas Bardsley |
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Affiliation: | (1) National Centre for Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK |
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Abstract: | Philosophers and economists write about collective action from distinct but related points of view. This paper aims to bridge these perspectives. Economists have been concerned with rationality in a strategic context. There, problems posed by “coordination games” seem to point to a form of rational action, “team thinking,” which is not individualistic. Philosophers’ analyses of collective intention, however, sometimes reduce collective action to a set of individually instrumental actions. They do not, therefore, capture the first person plural perspective characteristic of team thinking. Other analyses, problematically, depict intentions ranging over others’ actions. I offer an analysis of collective intention which avoids these problems. A collective intention aims only at causing an individual action, but its propositional content stipulates its mirroring in other minds. |
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Keywords: | Collective intention Rationality Games Cooperation |
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