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Crowther, Thomas (2020) Temporal ontology and joint action. Inquiry . doi:10.1080/0020174X.2020.1731592 ISSN 0020-174X . (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1731592
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to describe the temporal ontology of that basic manifestation of social agency that is the living of life together. The distinction between states, processes and events is clarified. There are notions of ‘doing things together’ that fall into each of these temporal categories. The ontology of the state of friendship is examined as one instance of living life together. Friendship is a state of community between agents that is sustained by a continuity of processes and events that are characteristic manifestations of the state, some (but not all) of which are processes of doing things together. The continuity of processes and events involved in friendship is distinctive in lacking a telic point. Further instances of shared life that possess this characteristic temporal structure are described. It is argued that this notion of a mode of shared life cannot be recovered from various kinds of temporally extended agential structures that are the ingredients of Michael Bratman’s work on shared agency. In so doing, I clarify the notion of a shared life and make a case for the fruitfulness of approaching questions about joint action from the perspective of work on the ontology of time occupation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Inquiry | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0020-174X | ||||||
| Official Date: | 17 March 2020 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1080/0020174X.2020.1731592 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry on 17/03/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1731592 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 November 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 September 2021 | ||||||
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