Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions
We identify a social phenomenon in which large numbers of people seem to work towards a shared goal without explicitly trying to do so. We argue that this phenomenon – implicit coordination – is best understood as a form of joint agency differing from the forms most commonly discussed in the litera...
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We identify a social phenomenon in which large numbers of people seem to work towards a shared goal without explicitly trying to do so. We argue that this phenomenon – implicit coordination – is best understood as a form of joint agency differing from the forms most commonly discussed in the literature in the same way that individual actions driven by “explicit” intentions (those available for reflection and report) differ from individual actions driven by “implicit” intentions (those not thus available). More precisely, implicit coordination is both analogous to wholly implicit individual intentions, and constituted by the partly implicit intentions of participants. We discuss the significance of this category for action theory, social ontology, and social criticism.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e22e5e6aeb004dd9b857563cc9d8f97f2023-05-28T07:32:17ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96632019-04-0142Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared IntentionsJudith Martens0Luke Roelofs1University of AntwerpNew York University We identify a social phenomenon in which large numbers of people seem to work towards a shared goal without explicitly trying to do so. We argue that this phenomenon – implicit coordination – is best understood as a form of joint agency differing from the forms most commonly discussed in the literature in the same way that individual actions driven by “explicit” intentions (those available for reflection and report) differ from individual actions driven by “implicit” intentions (those not thus available). More precisely, implicit coordination is both analogous to wholly implicit individual intentions, and constituted by the partly implicit intentions of participants. We discuss the significance of this category for action theory, social ontology, and social criticism. https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6792joint actionimplicit intentionsocial ontologycollective agencycollective intentionality |
| spellingShingle | Judith Martens Luke Roelofs Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions Journal of Social Ontology joint action implicit intention social ontology collective agency collective intentionality |
| title | Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions |
| title_full | Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions |
| title_fullStr | Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions |
| title_short | Implicit Coordination: Acting Quasi-Jointly on Implicit Shared Intentions |
| title_sort | implicit coordination acting quasi jointly on implicit shared intentions |
| topic | joint action implicit intention social ontology collective agency collective intentionality |
| url | https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6792 |
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