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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts.
What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.
List of contents
Introduction
Marija Jankovic and Kirk LudwigPart I Collective Action and Intention
Introduction to Part I
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig1. Collective Action and Agency
Sarah Chant2. Non-Reductive Views of Shared Intention
Raimo Tuomela3. Reductive Views of Shared Intention
Facundo Alonso4. Interpersonal Obligation in Joint Action
Abe Roth5. Proxy Agency in Collective Action
Kirk Ludwig6. Coordinating Joint Action
Stephen ButterfillPart II Shared and Joint Attitudes
Introduction to Part II
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig7. Collective Belief and Acceptance
Fred Schmitt8. Shared Values, Interests, and Desires
Bryce Huebner and Marcus Hedahl9. Joint Attention
John Campbell10. Joint Commitment
Margaret Gilbert11. Collective Memory
Kourken Michaelian and John Sutton12. Collective Emotions
Hans Bernhard Schmid13. Collective Phenomenology
Elisabeth PacheriePart III Epistemology and Rationality in the Social Context
Introduction to Part III
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig14. Common Knowledge
Harvey Lederman15. Collective Epistemology
Jennifer Lackey16. Rationality and Cooperation
Paul Weirich17. Team Reasoning: Controversies and Open Research Questions
Natalie Gold18. Distributive Cognitive Systems
Georg Theiner19. Corporate Agency: The Lesson of the Discursive Dilemma
Phillip PettitPart IV Social Ontology
Introduction to Part IV
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig20. Social Construction and Social Facts
Brian Epstein21. Social Groups
Paul Sheehy22. Social Kinds
Ásta 23. Status Functions
John SearlePart V Collectives and Responsibility
Introduction to Part V
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig24. Collective Intentions and Collective Moral Responsibility
Marion Smiley25. Complicity
Saba Bazargan-Forward26. Institutional Responsibility
Seumas MillerPart VI Collective Intentionality and Social Institutions
Introduction to Part VI
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig27. Institutions and Collective Intentionality
Frank Hindriks28. Collective Intentionality and Language
Marija Jankovic29. Collective Intentionality in the Law
Gideon Yaffe30. Collective Intentionality and Methodology in the Social Sciences
Deborah Perron TollefsenPart VII The Extent, Origins, and Development of Collective Intentionality
Introduction to Part VII
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
About the author
Marija Jankovic is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. Her areas of research are collective intentionality and philosophy of language.
Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He works in philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His most recent books are
From Individual to Plural Agency (2016) and
From Plural to Institutional Agency (2017).
Summary
The Handbook on Collective Intentionality brings together experts across a wide range of subjects concerned with the study of intentionality in the social context.
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"This superb handbook provides a broad survey of the scope and direction of the rapidly developing field of collective intentionality. Itself a collective enterprise by a body of international experts, this work is a must read for every student, teacher and researcher working on this exciting new interdisciplinary domain."– John D. Greenwood, CUNY Graduate Center"This collection stands as an excellent record of the state of current research on the subject of collective intentionality. One welcomes the summary statements by some prominent figures in the field of their own seminal contributions, and one is instructed into the directions in which further inquiry is now proceeding. Each of the contributions is well informed, clear, and cogently argued. Taken together they reveal a wider significance of collective intentionality not only in human inquiry but in human affairs."–Carol Rovane, Columbia University
