Doing Things Together: A Theory of Skillful Joint Action

To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action.

In everyday contexts we do numerous things together. Philosophers of collective intentionality have wondered how we can distinguish parallel cases from cases where we act together. Often their theories argue in favor of one characteristic, feature, or function, that differentiates the two. This feature then distinguishes parallel actions from joint action. The approach in this book is different.

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