{"pk":27078,"title":"Against the group actor assumption in joint action research","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A central assumption in joint action research is that in order toexplain how individuals act as part of a group, we must firstexplain how the group comes into existence. This assump-tion has led to an unnecessarily narrow research programme:research has focussed largely on interpersonal coordinationmechanisms. I outline an alternative approach predicated ona dynamic conception of the ecosystem. On this view, thereis no need to assume that actors must first constitute a groupagent with their fellows before entering into coordinated ac-tion. Such coordination can be more efficiently explained byrecognizing that all actions perturb the structure of the ecosys-tem itself in a manner that can alter the action possibilitiesavailable to neighbouring actors. This move allows us to over-come entrenched debates over the nature of shared intention-ality, and to instead focus on practical interventions in multi-actor settings.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"joint action; shared intentionality; ecosystems;ecological psychology"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f36n652","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ed","middle_name":"","last_name":"Baggs","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27078/galley/16714/download/"}]}