Cédric Paternotte
Biographic Data
| ID | 890513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cédric Paternotte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cédric |
| FAMILY NAME | Paternotte |
| SIGNATURE | PATERNOTTE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sorbonne Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9051-3202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropomorphisme: Des animaux aux machines
Nous discutons la propension naturelle et couramment observée de l’attribution de capacités humaines comme l’intentionnalité, les émotions, ou l’intelligence aux phénomènes naturels, aux êtres vivants non humains ou aux objets et systèmes artificiels. Ses raisons sont probablement évolutionnaires, et profondément ancrées dans le comportement humain. L’anthropomorphisation qui en découle, ou le refus de celle-ci, a notamment des conséquences sur l…
Deception as Mimicry
What is the nature of deception? What does it take for an organism to deceive another one? In this article we address these questions by appealing to the concept of mimicry. More precisely, we argue that a fruitful perspective regards deception as an instance of mimicry rather than the reverse. Conceiving of deception as an instance of mimicry has a number of interesting consequences: It draws connections between different areas of research, vind…
Joint Improvisation, Minimalism and Pluralism about Joint action
This paper introduces freely improvised joint actions, a class of joint actions characterized by (i) highly unspecific goals and (ii) the unavailability of shared plans. For example, walking together just for the sake of walking together with no specific destination or path in mind provides an ordinary example of FIJAs, along with examples in the arts, e.g., collective free improvisation in music, improv theater, or contact improvisation in dance…
Trolls, bans and reverts: Simulating Wikipedia
Social evolution and the individual-as-maximising-agent analogy
Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild. How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Since the publication of The Grammar of Society twelve years ago, it is fair to say that Cristina Bicchieri has become possibly the world’s main philosophical specialist on social norms. Her approach has then become increasingly empirical, both in her search for experimental evidence supporting her theory and her interest in real-world phenomena. Norms in the Wild is the result of such developments, as it stems from her work for the World Bank re…
Knowledge transfer without knowledge? The case of agentive metaphors in biology
Virtues and vices in scientific practice
Minimal Cooperation
Most definitions of cooperation provide sufficient but not necessary conditions. This paper describes a form of minimal cooperation, corresponding to mass actions implying many agents, such as demonstrations. It characterizes its intentional, epistemic, strategic, and teleological aspects, mostly obtained from weakening classical concepts. The rationality of minimal cooperation turns out to be part of its definition, whereas it is usually conside…
Social Norms and Game Theory: Harmony or Discord
Recent years have witnessed an increased number of game-theoretic approaches to social norms, which apparently share some common vocabulary and methods. We describe three major approaches of this kind (due to Binmore, Bicchieri, and Gintis), before comparing them systematically on five crucial themes: generality of the solution, preference transformation, punishment, epistemic conditions, and type of explanation. This allows us to show that these…
Comment on Raimo Tuomela. Joint Action: How Rational? How Irreducible?
In his ‘Cooperation as joint action’, Tuomela presents a we-mode account of cooperation, which he argues has several advantages over an individual account. This commentary examines to what extent this is true. In particular, I assess three related characteristics of we-mode joint action: its possible rationality, its greater efficiency, and its alleged irreducibility to purely individual properties, which are recurring points of the article.
Being realistic about common knowledge: A Lewisian approach
Une forme minimale de coopération
La plupart des nombreuses définitions existantes d’une action coopérative en fournissent des conditions suffisantes plutôt que nécessaires. Nous définissons ici une forme minimale de coopération, correspondant aux actions de masse, telles des manifestations. Nous en détaillons les aspects intentionnel, épistémique, stratégique et téléologique, généralement obtenus par affaiblissement spécifique de concepts classiques. Parallèlement, nous souligno…
Social Norms and Game Theory: Harmony or Discord
Recent years have witnessed an increased number of game-theoretic approaches to social norms, which apparently share some common vocabulary and methods. We describe three major approaches of this kind (due to Binmore, Bicchieri, and Gintis), before comparing them systematically on five crucial themes: generality of the solution, preference transformation, punishment, epistemic conditions, and type of explanation. This allows us to show that these…
Virtues and vices in scientific practice
Being realistic about common knowledge: A Lewisian approach
Minimal Cooperation
Most definitions of cooperation provide sufficient but not necessary conditions. This paper describes a form of minimal cooperation, corresponding to mass actions implying many agents, such as demonstrations. It characterizes its intentional, epistemic, strategic, and teleological aspects, mostly obtained from weakening classical concepts. The rationality of minimal cooperation turns out to be part of its definition, whereas it is usually conside…
Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild. How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Since the publication of The Grammar of Society twelve years ago, it is fair to say that Cristina Bicchieri has become possibly the world’s main philosophical specialist on social norms. Her approach has then become increasingly empirical, both in her search for experimental evidence supporting her theory and her interest in real-world phenomena. Norms in the Wild is the result of such developments, as it stems from her work for the World Bank re…
Knowledge transfer without knowledge? The case of agentive metaphors in biology
Une forme minimale de coopération
La plupart des nombreuses définitions existantes d’une action coopérative en fournissent des conditions suffisantes plutôt que nécessaires. Nous définissons ici une forme minimale de coopération, correspondant aux actions de masse, telles des manifestations. Nous en détaillons les aspects intentionnel, épistémique, stratégique et téléologique, généralement obtenus par affaiblissement spécifique de concepts classiques. Parallèlement, nous souligno…
Une forme minimale de coopération
La plupart des nombreuses définitions existantes d’une action coopérative en fournissent des conditions suffisantes plutôt que nécessaires. Nous définissons ici une forme minimale de coopération, correspondant aux actions de masse, telles des manifestations. Nous en détaillons les aspects intentionnel, épistémique, stratégique et téléologique, généralement obtenus par affaiblissement spécifique de concepts classiques. Parallèlement, nous souligno…
Comment on Raimo Tuomela. Joint Action: How Rational? How Irreducible?
In his ‘Cooperation as joint action’, Tuomela presents a we-mode account of cooperation, which he argues has several advantages over an individual account. This commentary examines to what extent this is true. In particular, I assess three related characteristics of we-mode joint action: its possible rationality, its greater efficiency, and its alleged irreducibility to purely individual properties, which are recurring points of the article.
Being realistic about common knowledge: A Lewisian approach
Social Norms and Game Theory: Harmony or Discord
Recent years have witnessed an increased number of game-theoretic approaches to social norms, which apparently share some common vocabulary and methods. We describe three major approaches of this kind (due to Binmore, Bicchieri, and Gintis), before comparing them systematically on five crucial themes: generality of the solution, preference transformation, punishment, epistemic conditions, and type of explanation. This allows us to show that these…
Minimal Cooperation
Most definitions of cooperation provide sufficient but not necessary conditions. This paper describes a form of minimal cooperation, corresponding to mass actions implying many agents, such as demonstrations. It characterizes its intentional, epistemic, strategic, and teleological aspects, mostly obtained from weakening classical concepts. The rationality of minimal cooperation turns out to be part of its definition, whereas it is usually conside…
Virtues and vices in scientific practice
Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild. How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Since the publication of The Grammar of Society twelve years ago, it is fair to say that Cristina Bicchieri has become possibly the world’s main philosophical specialist on social norms. Her approach has then become increasingly empirical, both in her search for experimental evidence supporting her theory and her interest in real-world phenomena. Norms in the Wild is the result of such developments, as it stems from her work for the World Bank re…
Knowledge transfer without knowledge? The case of agentive metaphors in biology
Social evolution and the individual-as-maximising-agent analogy
Joint Improvisation, Minimalism and Pluralism about Joint action
This paper introduces freely improvised joint actions, a class of joint actions characterized by (i) highly unspecific goals and (ii) the unavailability of shared plans. For example, walking together just for the sake of walking together with no specific destination or path in mind provides an ordinary example of FIJAs, along with examples in the arts, e.g., collective free improvisation in music, improv theater, or contact improvisation in dance…
Trolls, bans and reverts: Simulating Wikipedia
Deception as Mimicry
What is the nature of deception? What does it take for an organism to deceive another one? In this article we address these questions by appealing to the concept of mimicry. More precisely, we argue that a fruitful perspective regards deception as an instance of mimicry rather than the reverse. Conceiving of deception as an instance of mimicry has a number of interesting consequences: It draws connections between different areas of research, vind…
Anthropomorphisme: Des animaux aux machines
Nous discutons la propension naturelle et couramment observée de l’attribution de capacités humaines comme l’intentionnalité, les émotions, ou l’intelligence aux phénomènes naturels, aux êtres vivants non humains ou aux objets et systèmes artificiels. Ses raisons sont probablement évolutionnaires, et profondément ancrées dans le comportement humain. L’anthropomorphisation qui en découle, ou le refus de celle-ci, a notamment des conséquences sur l…
Computer Science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Mathematical economics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)