1st Edition
An Introduction to Collective Intentionality In Action, Thought, and Society
1. Introduction
Part I: Collective Action
2. The Landscape of Collective Action
3. Plural Action Sentences
4. Singular Group Action vs. Plural Group Action
5. Theories of Mind that Make Room for Group Agents
6. Singular Group Action Sentences
Summary of Part I
Part II: Shared Intention
7. Shared Intention
8. Content Accounts of Shared Intention
9. The Team Reasoning Account
10. Shared Intention and Obligation
Summary of Part II
Part III: Collective Belief and Cognition
11. Collective belief
12. Distributed and Group Level Cognition
Summary of Part III
Part IV: Collective Intentionality in Conventions, Social Rules, and Status Functions
13. Conventions
14. Status functions: introduction
15. Constitutive rules and collective intentional actions
16. Status Functions, Collective Acceptance, Constitutive Rules Redux
Summary of Part IV
Part V: Collective Intentionality and Institutions
17. What are Institutions?
18. Proxy Agency in Institutional Action
19. Corporations and other Legal Persons
20. Collective Intentionality and Communication
Summary of Part V
21. Conclusion
Biography
Marija Jankovic is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. Her areas of research are collective intentionality and philosophy of language. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, with Kirk Ludwig (2018).
Kirk Ludwig is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He works in philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. He is the author, with Ernest Lepore, of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson’s Truth-Theoretic Semantics (2007). He is the author of From Individual to Plural Agency: Collective Action 1 (2016) and From Plural to Institutional Agency: Collective Action 2 (2017). He is editor of Donald Davidson (2003), A Companion to Donald Davidson, with Ernest Lepore (2013), and The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality, with Marija Jankovic (2018).
