Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center invites you to the
following talk:
Elisabeth
Pacherie<http://www.institutnicod.org/membres/membres-statutaires/pacher…
(Institut Jean
Nicod)<http://www.institutnicod.org/membres/membres-statutaires/pacherie…
Commitments and the Sense of Joint Agency
While an important body of work in philosophy and psychology has emphasized the importance
of commitments in joint action, existing philosophical and empirical investigations of the
experience of acting together have devoted little attention to the role that commitments
might play in the emergence of a sense of joint action. I propose to explore three
complementary ways in which commitments may shape the sense of joint agency and its main
characteristics. First commitments may contribute to the generation of the sense of joint
agency by stabilizing expectations and improving predictability. Second, commitments have
a normative element that entitles the recipient of the commitment to perform regulatory
actions—e.g., protesting—when the author fails to fulfill the expectations generated by
their commitment. Such an entitlement may bolster an agent’s sense of control over the
joint action and help counterbalance the potentially disruptive effects of asymmetries
among agents on the experience of joint agency. Finally, commitments may contribute to
make acting jointly emotionally rewarding, both instrumentally, by improving coordination
and making it easier to achieve desired outcomes, and intrinsically, by fostering
circumstances under which shared emotions emerge among co-agents.
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET
Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom (meeting ID: 938 0308 2644 , passcode: 583553 )
Chair: Günther Knoblich
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here to
get access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Andi
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