Dimensions of shared agency. In search of a Group Level Account in Social Ontology

The research investigates shared agency and the ways of its explanation. The main concern is understanding how the debate in Social Ontology has described the event of individuals sharing mental states located in each mind and somehow common to everyone in the context. The task would be to grasp features peculiar to shared agency and to show how the philosophical discipline has accounted for them. The approach is at the same time critical and methodological. Its critical side aims at outlining the main positions, revisiting interpretations and suggesting alternative readings. Its methodological side calls into question the theoretical premises and explicative objectives of Social Ontology rather than its particular contents. The investigation regards fundamental assumptions, methodological choices, epistemological perspectives and explicative targets.