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challenge
Discover why people act,
individually and jointly.
When you act,
there are reasons why you act;
you know the reasons;
you act because you know the reasons; and
the reasons justify your action. make your action intelligible.
How can we turn this into a theory? Is it true?
Integration Questions
theories from two or more disciplines
(philosophical, psychological or formal)
which appear to target a single set of phenomena
while saying incompatible things about it ...
1. Are they actually inconsistent? ✔?
2. If so: how, if at all, should either or both theories be refined?
philosophy
What distinguishes actions from things that merely happen to you?
psychology
Which processes are involved in selecting the goals of actions?
Actions are those events which are appropriately related to intentions.
At least two: habitual and goal-directed.
apparent inconsistency
Nothing to say about processes.
Nothing to say about what action is.
apparent mutual dependence
Integration Questions
theories from two or more disciplines
(philosophical, psychological or formal)
which appear to target a single set of phenomena
while saying incompatible things about it ...
1. Are they actually inconsistent? ✔?
2. If so: how, if at all, should either or both theories be refined?
philosophy
What distinguishes joint actions from things we do in parallel but merely individually?
economics
How can we model rational behaviour in social interactions?
shared intention
game theory team reasoning
Pacherie’s Reconciliation:
‘shared intention lite’
Integration Questions
theories from two or more disciplines
(philosophical, psychological or formal)
which appear to target a single set of phenomena
while saying incompatible things about it ...
1. Are they actually inconsistent? ✔?
2. If so: how, if at all, should either or both theories be refined?
Integration Questions
theories from two or more disciplines
(philosophical, psychological or formal)
which appear to target a single set of phenomena
while saying incompatible things about it ...
1. Are they actually inconsistent? ✔?
2. If so: how, if at all, should either or both theories be refined?
challenge
Discover why people act,
individually and jointly.
basic theories and discoveries
from three disciplines needed
to answer the question
to reach beyond
you need to look beyond
🔑
inconsistencies abound (maybe)
but integration is possible (definitely)