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Doing Things Together - (Epistemic Studies) by Judith Martens (Paperback)
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Highlights
- To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action.
- About the Author: Judith Martens, University of Vienna, Austria.
- 217 Pages
- Philosophy, Political
- Series Name: Epistemic Studies
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About the Book
When we do things together, do we act together or in parallel? This book rejects traditional approaches that focus on a single feature to account for this difference. Building her argument around the example of dancing, and drawing support from cognBook Synopsis
To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action.
In everyday contexts we do numerous things together. Philosophers of collective intentionality have wondered how we can distinguish parallel cases from cases where we act together. Often their theories argue in favor of one characteristic, feature, or function, that differentiates the two. This feature then distinguishes parallel actions from joint action. The approach in this book is different.
Three claims are developed: (1) There are several functions that help human agents coordinate and act together. (2) This entails that joint action should be understood through these different, interrelated, types of coordination. (3) A multidimensional conceptual space, with three levels of control and coordination, will allow us to connect these different forms of coordination and their interdependencies. This allows us to understand the jointness of an action in a more differentiated and encompassing way.
This approach has ramifications for several distinctions that are typically understood to be binary, including those between action and mere bodily movement, joint action and parallel action, and action together and not together.
About the Author
Judith Martens, University of Vienna, Austria.
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