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Theories of Team Agency

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We explore the idea that a group or ‘team’ of individuals can be an agent in its own right and that, when this is the case, individual team members use team reasoning, a distinctive mode of reasoning from that of standard decision theory. Our approach is to represent team reasoning explicitly, by means of schemata of practical reasoning in which conclusions about what actions should be taken are inferred from premises about the decision environment and about what agents are seeking to achieve. We use this theoretical framework to compare team reasoning with the individual reasoning of standard decision theory, and to compare various theories of team agency and collective intentionality
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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0000-0003-0706-1618

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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Host title:
Rationality and Commitment
Publication date:
2007-12-13
ISBN-10:
0199287260
ISBN-13:
9780199287260


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