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    It is not the case that Team agency can be incorporated into game theory rather than treated as an exogenous psychological construct

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    • 1.Collective intentionality, per Searle and Bratman, is irreducibly first-personal plural ('we intend'), not decomposable into aggregated individual preferences.
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    • 2.Any formal model that reduces 'we-intentions' to transformed individual utility functions smuggles in the explanandum, not a genuine endogenous account of team agency.
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    • 1.Bacharach's 'circumspect team reasoning' requires agents to identify themselves as group members prior to any preference adaptation, presupposing the very team identity the model claims to generate.
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    • 2.An operational definition of group preference derived from individual adaptation cannot explain how agents come to frame their situation in team rather than individual terms in the first place.
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    • 1.The social model generates an operational definition of group preference
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    • 2.The social model can define truly coordinated choices
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    • 3.Agents in games can formally adapt and settle individual preferences in light of what others prefer and what promotes group stability and efficiency
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