Collective obligations, group plans and individual actions

Economics and Philosophy 33 (2):187-214 (2017)
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If group members aim to fulfill a collective obligation, they must act in such a way that the composition of their individual actions amounts to a group action that fulfills the collective obligation. We study a strong sense of joint action in which the members of a group design and then publicly adopt a group plan that coordinates the individual actions of the group members. We characterize the conditions under which a group plan successfully coordinates the group members' individual actions, and study how the public adoption of a plan changes the context in which individual agents make a decision about what to do.

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Allard Tamminga
University of Greifswald
Hein Duijf
Utrecht University

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