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| Title: | Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents |
| Authors: | Pettit, Philip
Steele, Katie |
| Keywords: | minds
mobs
memories
pettit
steele
centre for time |
| Issue Date: | 3-Dec-2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | Minds, Mobs and Memories |
| Abstract: | Note: The audio file features Philip Pettit's paper, entitiled
"Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents," followed by commentary from Katie Steele, then discussion.
Abstract for Pettit's paper:
Rationality involves susceptibility to certain agency-related constraints and desiderata. This susceptibility is implemented sub-personally in animal agents but the implementation is intentionally reinforced by the reasoning and regulation that human animals pursue. What, then, of artificial agents: not silicon-based robots but socially constructed organizations? It turns out that rationality is hard to implement sub-personally with such agents; that reasoning plays a natural and important part; and that regulation is a necessary supplement, as with individual subjects. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1322 |
| Appears in Collections: | Conference presentations, workshops and meetings
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