Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems

This book brings together philosophical approaches to cooperation and collective agency with research into human-machine interaction and cooperation from engineering, robotics, computer science and AI. Bringing these so far largely unrelated fields of stu

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Catrin Misselhorn Editor

Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems Explanation, Implementation and Simulation

Philosophical Studies Series Volume 122

Editor-in-Chief Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom Executive Editorial Board Patrick Allo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Massimo Durante, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Phyllis Illari, University College London, United Kingdom Shannon Vallor, Santa Clara University Board of Consulting Editors Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University, Tempe Radu Bogdan, Tulane University Marian David, University of Notre Dame John M. Fischer, University of California at Riverside Keith Lehrer, University of Arizona, Tucson Denise Meyerson, Macquarie University François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, EHESS, Paris Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas at Austin Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo Nicholas D. Smith, Lewis & Clark College Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6459

Catrin Misselhorn Editor

Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems Explanation, Implementation and Simulation

Editor Catrin Misselhorn Institute of Philosophy University of Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany

Philosophical Studies Series ISBN 978-3-319-15514-2 ISBN 978-3-319-15515-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15515-9

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Preface

Human-machine interaction (HMI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) became popular in the 1980s parallel to the rise of personal computers. At that point,