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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 and the Assignment of Function

2010
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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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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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Searle and Collective Intentionality

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT.Several key elements go into Searle's construction of social reality, namely, collective intentionality, constitutive rules, and status functions. But by far the most important and arguably contentious of these is collective intentionality. Searle postulates his notion of collective intentionality as a solution to a conflict between two of his
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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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Collective intentionality vs. intersubjective intentionality and social intentionality. An account of collective intentionality as shared intentionality

2011
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 inter-subjective intentionality, also called social cognition, and with social intentionality.
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Collective Intentionality and Practical Reason

2013
In this chapter I am interested in the conceptual relation between the claim that practical reason just is or reduces to instrumental reason (I will call this position “instrumentalism about practical reason”) and the claim that the real problem of instrumental rationality is not its instrumentalism about practical reason but its “individualism about ...
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From Individual to Collective Intentionality

2014
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.
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Collective Intentionality, Norms and Institutions

2014
Cooperation is a fundamental characteristic of the intelligent beings. It makes them able to evolve complex social behaviors and to better resolve practical issues. Humans have evolved a very powerful form of cooperation, which is spread anywhere in the everyday life: norms, institutions, states, hierarchies, ordinary relationships, etc., are deeply ...
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