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Shared intentionality and the representation of groups; or, how to build a socially adept robot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

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Ben Phillips*
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Department of Philosophy, School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA bsphilli@asu.edu https://www.bensphillips.com/
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Abstract

Pietraszewski provides a compelling case that representations of certain interaction-types are the “cognitive primitives” that allow all tokens of group-in-conflict to be represented within the mind. Here, I argue that the folk concept GROUP encodes shared intentions and goals as more central than these interaction-types, and that providing a computational theory of social groups will be more difficult than Pietraszewski envisages.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e115
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