Shared Intention is not Joint Commitment

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (2):179-189 (2018)
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Abstract

Margaret Gilbert has long defended the view that, roughly speaking, agents share the intention to perform an action if and only if they jointly commit to performing that action. This view has proven both influential and controversial. While some authors have raised concerns over the joint commitment view of shared intention, including at times offering purported counterexamples to certain aspects of the view, straightforward counterexamples to the view as a whole have yet to appear in the literature. Here we provide such counterexamples to show that joint commitment is neither necessary nor sufficient for shared intention.

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Seumas Miller
Delft University of Technology
Matthew Kopec
Harvard University

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