Actions receive teleological descriptions and reason explanations. In some circumstances, these descriptions and explanations might appeal not just to the agent’s own purposes and reasons, but also to the purposes and reasons of others in her social surroundings. Some actions have a social teleology. I illustrate this phenomenon and I propose a concept of vicarious action to account for it. An agent acts vicariously when she acts in response to the demand of another agent who knew that her demand was likely to succeed. I argue that vicariousness grounds the social teleology of the resulting actions.

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替代行动和社会目的论

行动接受目的论描述和原因解释。在某些情况下，这些描述和解释可能不仅适用于代理人自己的目的和理由，而且也适用于其社会环境中其他人的目的和理由。有些动作有社会的目的论。我说明了这一现象，并提出了一个概念替代行动来解释它。当一个代理人响应另一个知道她的要求可能会成功的代理人的要求时，她采取了替代行动。我认为替代性是由此产生的行为的社会目的论的基础。