Theories of team agency

In Fabienne Peter (ed.), rationality and commitment. Oxford University Press USA (2007)
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Abstract

We explore the idea that a group or ‘team’ of individuals can be an agent in its own right and that, when this is the case, individual team members use team reasoning, a distinctive mode of reasoning from that of standard decision theory. Our approach is to represent team reasoning explicitly, by means of schemata of practical reasoning in which conclusions about what actions should be taken are inferred from premises about the decision environment and about what agents are seeking to achieve. We use this theoretical framework to compare team reasoning with the individual reasoning of standard decision theory, and to compare various theories of team agency and collective intentionality.

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Robert Sugden
University of East Anglia
Natalie Gold
London School of Economics

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