Lecture 04

Date given: Wednesday, 29th October 2025

Handout for all of Lecture 04 as pdf. (This has the same content as the web version you are reading here.)

Essay Questions

This lecture is relevant for answering the following questions:

• long essay question 6, What distinguishes joint actions from individual actions performed in parallel?

• long essay question 8, What, if anything, do scientific discoveries about the interpersonal coordination of action reveal about how joint action differs from acting in parallel but merely individually?

• long essay question 9, Is there a counterexample to Bratman’s theory of shared agency?

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• The Problem of Joint Action
• Quick Answers Fail
• Salomone-Sehr’s Minimalist Account of Joint Action
• Bratman on Shared Intentional Action
• Conclusion