Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents

Pettit, Philip; Steele, Katie

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Pettit, Philip
dc.contributor.author	Steele, Katie
dc.date.accessioned	2006-12-04
dc.date.available	2006-12-04
dc.date.issued	2006-12-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1322
dc.description.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.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Minds, Mobs and Memories	en
dc.rights	Other	en
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dc.subject	minds	en
dc.subject	mobs	en
dc.subject	memories	en
dc.subject	pettit	en
dc.subject	steele	en
dc.subject	centre for time	en
dc.title	Rationality, reasoning and regulation: the case of group agents	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
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usyd.faculty	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Centre for Time