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2007-2008 Fellows

Facundo Alonso

Stanford University
Philosophy Department

Facundo Alonso is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford. He received his Licenciatura in Economics and his Licenciatura in Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and his M. A. in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His current research focuses on the philosophy of shared agency.

Project Summary

Shared Intention, Reliance, and Interpersonal Obligations aims to provide a satisfactory account of the central psychological and normative aspects of shared intention and action. Alonso proposes a compromise position with regard to the relative significance of socio-psychological structures and of interpersonal obligations and rights in a proper understanding of shared intention and action. His thesis is that shared intention is constituted by complex relations of mutual reliance that ensure, under normal circumstances, the existence of important interpersonal obligations and rights.