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I will shed light on the phenomenon of collective intentionality, which, in the philosophical, cognitive sciences and neurosciences debate, is often confused with similar yet diverse phenomena, i.e. with intersubjective intentionality, also called social
Francesca De Vecchi
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We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood
The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community.
Dan Zahavi
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Hybrid collective intentionality [PDF]
AbstractThe theory of collective agency and intentionality is a flourishing field of research, and our understanding of these phenomena has arguably increased greatly in recent years. Extant theories, however, are still ill-equipped to explain certain aspects of collective intentionality.
Thomas Brouwer +2 more
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Collective Intentionality and Causal Powers
Bridging two traditions of social ontology, this paper examines the possibility that the concept of collective intentionality can help to explain the mechanisms underpinning the causal powers of some social entities.
Dave Elder-Vass
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Collective Intentionality, Social Domination, and Reification
This paper addresses the way that social power and domination can be understood in terms of collective intentionality. I argue that the essence of stable forms of rational power and domination must be understood as the functional influence of material ...
Thompson Michael J.
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Husserl on Collective Intentionality [PDF]
Unlike Husserl’s theory of empathy and intersubjectivity, his theory of collective intentionality has hardly been studied. In this paper, I shall address this neglected but important aspect of his phenomenology. I will argue that Husserl’s contribution, on closer scrutiny, not only stands on an equal footing with contemporary analytic accounts but ...
Thomas Szántó, Szántó Thomas
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Pretend play and the development of collective intentionality
Young children's pretend play is considered in the context of the development of collective intentionality. It is argued that (i) early pretending is an essentially social and culturally acquired form of action, and (ii) early social pretend play can be considered as the first form of true collective intentionality in ontogeny - involving shared ...
Hannes Rakoczy
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From collective intentionality to intentional collectives: An ontological perspective
This paper presents a methodology for the analysis of the entities which the discourse on collective intentionality usually refers to. We aim, in particular, at characterizing the notion of intentional collective. Based on reviews of the relevant literature, we apply three formal-ontological tools of our choice (namely, DOLCE, DnS, and DDPO) to the ...
Emanuele Bottazzi, Aldo Gangemi
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Collective intentionality [PDF]
Collective intentionality concerns the intentionality of groups or collectives. Intentionality is the property of being about, directed at, oriented toward, or representing objects, events, properties, and states of affairs. Examples of intentional states (states with intentionality, not just intentions) are belief, desire, hope, intention, admiration,
Marija Jankovic, Kirk Ludwig
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Collective intentionality and autism: Against the exclusion of the “social misfits” [PDF]
The paper aims to shed light on Searle’s notion of collective intentionality (CI) as a primitive phenomenon shared by all humans. The latter could be problematic given that there are individuals who are unable to grasp collective intentionality ...
Lekić Kristina
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