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Modest Sociality, Minimal Cooperation and Natural Intersubjectivity

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posted on 2023-08-30, 17:36 authored by Michael Wilby
What is the relation between small-scale collaborative plans and the execution of those plans within interactive contexts? I argue here that joint attention has a key role in explaining how shared plans and shared intentions are executed in interactive contexts. Within singular action, attention plays the functional role of enabling intentional action to be guided by a prior intention. Within interactive joint action, it is joint attention, I argue, that plays a similar functional role of enabling the agents to act in a collaborative way such that their actions are rationally guided by a prior shared intention. This understanding of joint attention –as having a key functional role of enabling the rational guidance of joint intentional action by a prior shared intention – allows for an alternative understanding of the kind of minimal cooperation that infants can engage in. On this understanding, infants’ capacity to engage in joint actions is already an incipient capacity to engage in rational and intentional joint actions, albeit a capacity that is necessarily scaffolded by an adult rational co-partner.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Page range

127-148

Series

Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

Title of book

Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency

ISBN

978-3-030-29782-4

Editors

Anika Fiebich

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Number of pieces

12

Legacy posted date

2020-09-01

Legacy creation date

2020-09-01

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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