Michael E. Bratman, “Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together” (Oxford UP, 2014)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Nov 1, 2014 · 1h 5m

One striking feature of humans is that fact that we sometimes act together. We garden, paint, sing, and dance together. Moreover, we intuitively recognize the difference between our simply walking down the street alongside each other and our walking down the street together. The former involves coordinated action and intention; but the latter involves something more–what we might think of as a shared intention. Once we recognize that shared activity involved share intentions, a range of distinctively philosophical questions emerge: What are shared intentions? What is their structure? How do…