Machiavelli's Intentions

Group Intentions

Groups of intelligent agents are studied in several subareas of Artificial Intelligence, notably, autonomous agents, multiagent planning and action, discourse understanding, and cooperative work. I motivate and present a formal theory of the intentions of a group of agents that analyzes the intentions of a group in terms of its internal organization, and the intentions of its members. This theo...

Research intentions

Conscious Intentions

It has recently been widely argued that all consciousness is perceptual, including the conscious experience of action. This paper argues that there can be a conscious component of the experience of action that is not perceptual. The argument is based on Searle’s concept of “direction of fit” and the conditions of satisfaction of an intention. The conditions of satisfaction of an intention diffe...

Collective Intentions

In this paper the notion of collective intention in teams of agents involved in cooperative problem solving (CPS) in multiagent systems (MAS) is investigated. Starting from individual intentions , goals, and beliefs defining agents' local asocial motivational and informational attitudes, we arrive at an understanding of a collective intention in a team of agents. The presented definitions are r...

Conditional Intentions

Conditional Intentions " [Don] Giovanni's own end and the end of the opera both affirm that there is no actual human life that can be lived as unconditionally as his, but, at the same time, they recognize that any vitality that other people have must sustain the dream of being as free from conditions as his was. " Bernard Williams (2006, p. 22) 1 Introduction 1.1 Many, if not most, of our avowa...