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Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency

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Editors:
  1. Anika Fiebich

    1. Bremen, Germany

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  • Examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles
  • Features essays written by top scholars in the philosophy of mind and action
  • Explores how cooperation and shared agency come into existence and how they interrelate with more complex cases

Part of the book series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality (SIPS, volume 11)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Minimal Cooperation (Editorial Introduction)

    • Anika Fiebich
    Pages 1-7

  3. What Is Minimally Cooperative Behavior?

    • Kirk Ludwig
    Pages 9-39

  4. Joint Action: Why So Minimal?

    • Cédric Paternotte
    Pages 41-58

  5. What in the World: Conversation and Things in Context

    • Shaun Gallagher
    Pages 59-70

  6. Shared Intentionality and the Cooperative Evolutionary Hypothesis

    • Glenda Satne, Alessandro Salice
    Pages 71-92

  7. Minimal Cooperation and Group Roles

    • Katherine Ritchie
    Pages 93-109

  8. Towards a Blueprint for a Social Animal

    • Stephen Butterfill, Elisabeth Pacherie
    Pages 111-125

  9. Modest Sociality, Minimal Cooperation and Natural Intersubjectivity

    • Michael Wilby
    Pages 127-148

  10. Solving the Hi-lo Paradox: Equilibria, Beliefs, and Coordination

    • Francesco Guala
    Pages 149-168

  11. Proprietary Reasons and Joint Action

    • Abe Roth
    Pages 169-180

  12. Motor Representation and Action Experience in Joint Action

    • Corrado Sinigaglia, Stephen A. Butterfill
    Pages 181-193

  13. From Collective Memory … to Collective Metamemory?

    • Santiago Arango-Muñoz, Kourken Michaelian
    Pages 195-217
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This volume examines minimality in cooperation and shared agency from various angles. It features essays written by top scholars in the philosophy of mind and action. Taken together, the essays provide a genuine contribution to the contemporary joint action debate.

The main accounts in this debate present sufficient rather than necessary or minimal criteria for there to be cooperation. Much discussion in the debate deals with robust rather than more attenuate and simple cases of cooperation or shared agency. Focusing on such minimal cases, however, may help to explain how cooperation comes into existence and how minimal cooperation interrelates with more complex cases of cooperation. 

The contributors discuss minimality in cooperation by focusing on particular aspects. For example, they consider how social roles might deliver minimal cooperation constraints or what the minimal contextual criteria are for cooperation to emerge.

Readers will find the answers to these and other questions: What is minimally cooperative behavior? By what steps could full members of a society organized by conventions, norms and institutions be constructed from creatures with minimal social skills and cognitive abilities? What do we experience of actions when we act together with a purpose?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bremen, Germany

    Anika Fiebich

About the editor

Anika Fiebich has finished her Ph.D. in philosophy on “Varieties of Social Understanding” in 2013 at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Albert Newen (Bochum) and Prof. Shaun Gallagher (Memphis). Her research focuses on various issues in the philosophy of mind and action. During her Ph.D. and postdoc time, she has worked at the Ruhr-University Bochum, École Normale Superièure in Lyon, Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, University of Memphis, University of Wollongong, Duisburg-Essen University, and the Center for the Study of Social Action at the University of Milan.

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