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Human beings act together in characteristic ways, and these forms of shared activity matter to us a great deal. Think of friendship and love, singing duets, dancing together, and the joys of conversation. And think about the usefulness of conversation and how we frequently manage to work together to achieve complex goals, from building buildings to putting on plays to establishing important results in the sciences.



Table of Contents

Chapter One: Sociality and Planning Agency
1. Modest sociality and the continuity thesis
2. Shared intention, individual intention
3. I intend that we J: a first pass
4. Individual planning agency: roles and norms
5. Individual planning agency: further ideas
6. Creature construction
7. Social functioning and social rationality
8. Constructivism about shared intention and modest sociality
9. Continuity, sufficiency, and Ockham´s Razor
10. Deception, coercion, shared intentional, shared cooperative
Chapter Two: Building Blocks, Part One
1. I intend that we J, and circularity
2. Interlocking and reflexive intentions
3. Intended mesh
4. Intending, expecting, and a disposition to help
5. Out in the open
Chapter Three: Building Blocks, Part Two
1. I intend that we J, and the own-action condition
2. The settle condition, and persistence interdependence
3. Persistence interdependence and over-determination
4. Three forms of persistence interdependence
5. Persistence interdependence, etiology and temporal asymmetry
6. Further building blocks
7. The connection condition and mutual responsiveness
8. Taking stock
Chapter Four: A Construction of Modest Sociality
1. The basic thesis
2. The emergence of modest sociality
3. Modest sociality and strategic interaction
4. Quasi-Lockean social ties
5. Social networks
6. Treating as a means?
7. Deception and coercion re-visited
8. The compressed basic thesis
9. Too demanding?
Chapter Five: Modest Sociality and Mutual Obligation
1. Shared intention, social explanation
2. Shared intention, persistence interdependence, and mutual obligation
3. Gilbert on joint commitment
4. Normativity, sociality, and Ockham´s Razor
Chapter Six: Group Agents Without Group Subjects
1. Group agents and the basic thesis
2. Group subjects?
Chapter Seven: Shared Deliberation, Common Ground
1. Shared deliberation and shared intention
2. Shared commitments to weights
3. Shared policies about weights
4. Where the group stands
5. Interdependence in policies about weights
6. Partiality and depth of shared policies about weights
7. Shared policy-structured acceptance
8. Shared policies of social rationality
Conclusion: Interconnected Planning Agents
Index