Shared goals and development
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Shared goals and development. / Blomberg, Olle.
I: Philosophical Quarterly, Bind 65, Nr. 258, 01.2015, s. 94-101.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Shared goals and development
AU - Blomberg, Olle
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - In 'Joint Action and Development', Stephen Butterfill argues that if several agents' actions are driven by what he calls a "shared goal" -- a certain pattern of goal-relations and expectations -- then these actions constitute a joint action. This kind of joint action is sufficiently cognitively undemanding for children to engage in, and therefore has the potential to play a part in fostering their understanding of other minds. Part of the functional role of shared goals is to enable agents to choose means that are appropriate to realising a goal with others rather than individually. By offering a counterexample, I show that the pattern of goal-relations and expectations specified by Butterfill cannot play this role. I then provide an appropriately conceptually and cognitively undemanding amendment with which the account can be saved.
AB - In 'Joint Action and Development', Stephen Butterfill argues that if several agents' actions are driven by what he calls a "shared goal" -- a certain pattern of goal-relations and expectations -- then these actions constitute a joint action. This kind of joint action is sufficiently cognitively undemanding for children to engage in, and therefore has the potential to play a part in fostering their understanding of other minds. Part of the functional role of shared goals is to enable agents to choose means that are appropriate to realising a goal with others rather than individually. By offering a counterexample, I show that the pattern of goal-relations and expectations specified by Butterfill cannot play this role. I then provide an appropriately conceptually and cognitively undemanding amendment with which the account can be saved.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Joint action
KW - plural activity
KW - shared goal
KW - mindreading
KW - social development
KW - Stephen Butterfill
U2 - 10.1093/pq/pqu059
DO - 10.1093/pq/pqu059
M3 - Journal article
VL - 65
SP - 94
EP - 101
JO - Philosophical Quarterly
JF - Philosophical Quarterly
SN - 0031-8094
IS - 258
ER -
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