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From Individual to Collective Intentionality Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)

From Individual to Collective Intentionality By Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)

From Individual to Collective Intentionality by Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)


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Acting together requires collective intentions. The contributions to this volume seek to critically assess or to enrich theories of collective intentionality by exploring topics such as collective belief, mutual coordination, and the explanation of group behavior.

From Individual to Collective Intentionality Summary

From Individual to Collective Intentionality: New Essays by Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)

Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of collective intentions. This volume brings together ten new philosophical essays that address issues such as how individuals succeed in maintaining coordination throughout the performance of a collective action, whether groups can actually believe propositions or whether they merely accept them, and what kind of evidence, if any, disciplines such as cognitive science and semantics provide in support of irreducibly collective states. The theories of the Big Four of collective intentionality - Michael Bratman, Raimo Tuomela, John Searle, and Margaret Gilbert - and the Big Five of Social Ontology - which in addition to the Big Four includes Philip Pettit - play a central role in almost all of these essays. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including dynamical systems theory, economics, and psychology, the contributors develop existing theories, criticize them, or provide alternatives to them. Several essays challenge the idea that there is a straightforward dichotomy between individual and collective level rationality, and explore the interplay between these levels in order to shed new light on the alleged discontinuities between them. These contributions make abundantly clear that it is no longer an option simply to juxtapose analyses of individual and collective level phenomena and maintain that there is a discrepancy. Some go as far as arguing that on closer inspection the alleged discontinuities dissolve

About Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)

SRC: Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia; FH: Assistant Professor, University of Grogingen; GP: Adjunct Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and co-editor of CONTEXTUALISM IN PHILOSOPHY (0UP, 2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction: ; Beyond the Big Four and the Big Five ; Sara Rachel Chant, Frank Hindriks, and Gerhard Preyer ; Part I: Collective Attitudes and Actions ; 1. A Dynamic Theory of Shared Intention ; Deborah Tollefsen ; 2. Collective Goals Analyzed ; Kaarlo Miller and Raimo Tuomela ; 3. Group Belief and Acceptance ; Frederick F. Schmitt ; 4. Against Group Cognitive States ; Robert D. Rupert ; 5. The Ontology of Collective Action ; Kirk Ludwig ; Part II: Collective Rationality ; 6. Indispensability, the discursive dilemma, and groups with minds of their own ; Abe Roth ; 7. Do Groups Have Scientific Knowledge? ; Melinda Bonnie Fagan ; 8. Collective Rationality's Roots ; Paul Weirich ; 9. Structural Rationality and Collective Intentions ; Julian Nida-Rumelin

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NPB9780199936502
9780199936502
0199936501
From Individual to Collective Intentionality: New Essays by Sara Rachel Chant (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2014-04-17
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