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Can Collective Intentionality Be Individualized?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT . Searle's philosophical construction of social reality has three basic “building blocks”: collective intentionality, constitutive rules, and the imposition of functions. This article will focus on the first of these, collective intentionality, which is taken to be the central span on the bridge from physics to society.
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Collective intentionality

2018
Intentionality refers to the capacity of mental states to be about or directed toward some object or state of affairs. Collective intentionality refers to a growing area of intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary research that studies the ways in which individuals share mental states such as belief, knowledge, and intention, and the possibility that ...
Deborah Tollefsen   +1 more
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Collections, collectives, and individuals: Preschoolers’ attributions of intentionality

Cognition, 2019
Given the complexity of our social worlds, humans must develop the ability to make nuanced interpretations of behavior, including the ability to infer an actor's intentions from perceptual properties of an actor's movements. Consistent with the common perception of a group as a single collective entity and the use of singular nouns to refer to groups ...
Hammad, Sheikh, Lawrence A, Hirschfeld
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Collectives and Intentionality

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1997
1. Philosophers have been curiously unpuzzled by the existence of human institutions, and by what John Searle calls the 'metaphysics of ordinary social relations'. Searle induces in his readers a strong sense of the complexity, the precariousness, and the objectivity of the social world.
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Explaining Collective Intentionality

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT . The Construction of Social Reality contains interesting suggestions about the ways in which phenomena of we‐intentionality derive from beliefs and desires of social agents. This explanatory trust is in deep tension with Searle's general view that we‐intentionality is a primitive phenomenon.
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Collective Intentions and Collective Intentionality

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT . John Searle believes that collective intentions are crucial to his philosophy, but he is yet to present a coherent account of these entities. No account whatsoever of collective intentions is presented in the book where Searle needs them the most (The Construction of Social Reality), or, for that matter, in any other of Searle's major books.
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Collective Intentionality and Recognition from Others

2013
This paper approaches questions of collective intentionality by drawing inspiration from theories of recognition. After making some remarks about “recognition” and “groups” the paper examines whether the kind of dependence on recognition that holds of individual agents is equally true of group agents.
Laitinen Arto, Laitinen Arto
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