Shared goals and development

Olle Blomberg

doi:10.1093/pq/pqu059

Shared goals and development

Olle Blomberg

Institut for Kommunikation

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Abstract

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 realizing 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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Philosophical Quarterly
Vol/bind	65
Udgave nummer	258
Sider (fra-til)	94-101
Antal sider	8
ISSN	0031-8094
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqu059
Status	Udgivet - 1 jan. 2015

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