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127Collective Agency: From Philosophical and Logical PerspectivesDissertation, University of Amsterdam. 2023.People inhabit a vast and intricate social network nowadays. In addition to our own decisions and actions, we confront those of various groups every day. Collective decisions and actions are more complex and bewildering compared to those made by individuals. As members of a collective, we contribute to its decisions, but our contributions may not always align with the outcome. We may also find ourselves excluded from certain groups and passively subjected to their influences without being aware …Read more
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24Reasoning about Dependence, Preference and Coalitional PowerJournal of Philosophical Logic 53 (1): 99-130. 2024.This paper presents a logic of preference and functional dependence (LPFD) and its hybrid extension (HLPFD), both of whose sound and strongly complete axiomatization are provided. The decidability of LPFD is also proved. The application of LPFD and HLPFD to modelling cooperative games in strategic form is explored. The resulted framework provides a unified view on Nash equilibrium, Pareto optimality and the core. The philosophical relevance of these game-theoretical notions to discussions of col…Read more
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22Intentionality as DispositionIn Beishui Liao & Yì N. Wáng (eds.), Context, Conflict and Reasoning. Proceedings of the Fifth Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, Springer. pp. 157-167. 2020.Regarding collective agency, there have been two conflicting accounts, reducible and irreducible ones. This paper points out that the reason behind these two accounts and their irreconcilable status quo is that there is a tendency towards individualism and even naturalism with exisiting theories. This tendency comes with an unnecessary presupposition, which forces philosophers to face the tension between the irreducible group-concept and ontological monism. We propose a new perspective, that of …Read more
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444A Relational Perspective on Collective AgencyPhilosophies 7 (3): 63. 2022.The discussion of collective agency involves the reduction problem of the concept of a collective. Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories and made them face the tension between an irreducible concept of a collective and ontological reductionism. Heterodox theories as functionalism and interpretationism reinterpret the concept of agency and accept it as realized on the level of a collective. In order to adequately explain social phenomena that have relation…Read more
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Areas of Specialization
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Collective Intentions |
Social Ontology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Game Theory |
Intentional Action |
Social Epistemology |