Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems: Explanation, Implementation and

Part I: Concepts of Agency.- Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems.-Cooperation with Robots? A Two-dimensional Approach.- The Participatory Turn - A Multidimensional Gradual Agency Concept for Human and Non-human Actors.- Part II: Human-machine Cooperation.- Embodied Cooperative Systems: From Tool to Partnership.- Historical, Cultural, and Aesthetic Aspects of the Uncanny Valley.- Ethical Implications Regarding Assistive Technology at Workplaces.- Some Sceptical Remarks Regarding Robot Responsibility and a Way Forward.- Part III: Collective Agency.- Planning for Collective Agency.- An Account of Boeschian Cooperative Behavior.- Choosing Appropriate Paradigmatic Examples for Understanding Collective Agency.- Can Artificial Systems be Part of a Collective Action?.- Is Collective Agency a Coherent Idea? Considerations from the Enactive Theory of Agency.- Part IV: Simulating Collective Agency and Cooperation.- Simulation as Research Method: Modeling Social Interactions in Management Science.- How Models Fail? A Critical Look at the History of Computer Simulations of Evolution in Cooperation.- Artificial Intelligence and Pro-social Behavior.