Cooperation as Joint Action
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Raimo Tuomela
Abstract
The paper studies cooperation as joint action, where joint action can, first, be conceptualized either individualistically in terms of the participants' individual goals and beliefs that the joint action is taken to serve. This is individualistic or ‛I-mode’ cooperation. Special version of it is ‛ pro-group I-mode’ cooperation, where the goals are shared. Second, cooperation can be of the kind where a group of persons act together as a group in terms of the non-aggregative ‛ we’ that they form. The results of the paper support the conjecture that we-mode conceptualization and an account of cooperation is needed to complement the individualistic (pro-group) I-mode account(s) in social science theorizing and experimentation.
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- Comment on Hermann Kocyba. The Regime of Esteem, or Recognition as Affirmation
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- Comment on Lorenzo Sacconi, Marco Faillo and Stefania Ottone. Contractarian Compliance, Welfarist Justice, and Conformist Utility
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents
- Editorial: Work and Cooperation
- On the Logic and Ethics of Cooperation
- Potentials of Cooperation
- The Idiocy of Strategic Reasoning. Towards an Account of Consensual Action
- Comment on Hans Bernhard Schmid. Coordination, Cooperation and the Origin of Normative Expectations
- Cooperation as Joint Action
- Comment on Raimo Tuomela. Joint Action: How Rational? How Irreducible?
- Justice as Fairness and Reciprocity
- Comment on Andrew Lister. Just Distribution(s) for Mutual Recognition
- Cooperating to Promote the Good
- Comment on Robert H. Myers. Finding Out What is Substantive in Cooperation
- Reply to Anton Leist. Keeping Constructivism in Its Place
- Cooperation and Efficiency in Economic Contexts
- Cooperation for Economic Success: The Mondragon Case
- Comment on Ramon Flecha and Ignacio Santa Cruz. The Priority of Labor and Capital Accounts
- Are Multinational Companies Responsible for Working Conditions in Their Supply Chains? From Intuition to Argument
- Comment on Sonja Dänzer. Structural Injustice in Global Production Networks: Shared Responsibility for Working Conditions
- From Niche to Mass Markets: Rival Strategies in Promoting Fair Trade Organic Commodity Chains
- Recognition, Cooperation and the Moral Presuppositions of Capitalist Organization of Work
- Comment on Hermann Kocyba. The Regime of Esteem, or Recognition as Affirmation
- Fairness and Cooperation in Experimental Research
- Contractarian Compliance and the 'Sense of Justice': A Behavioral Conformity Model and Its Experimental Support
- Comment on Lorenzo Sacconi, Marco Faillo and Stefania Ottone. Contractarian Compliance, Welfarist Justice, and Conformist Utility
- Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
- Reciprocity in Economic Games
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