1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality
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.
Introduction
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
Part I Collective Action and Intention
Introduction to Part I
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
1. Collective Action and Agency
Sarah Chant
2. Non-Reductive Views of Shared Intention
Raimo Tuomela
3. Reductive Views of Shared Intention
Facundo Alonso
4. Interpersonal Obligation in Joint Action
Abe Roth
5. Proxy Agency in Collective Action
Kirk Ludwig
6. Coordinating Joint Action
Stephen Butterfill
Part II Shared and Joint Attitudes
Introduction to Part II
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
7. Collective Belief and Acceptance
Fred Schmitt
8. Shared Values, Interests, and Desires
Bryce Huebner and Marcus Hedahl
9. Joint Attention
John Campbell
10. Joint Commitment
Margaret Gilbert
11. Collective Memory
Kourken Michaelian and John Sutton
12. Collective Emotions
Hans Bernhard Schmid
13. Collective Phenomenology
Elisabeth Pacherie
Part III Epistemology and Rationality in the Social Context
Introduction to Part III
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
14. Common Knowledge
Harvey Lederman
15. Collective Epistemology
Jennifer Lackey
16. Rationality and Cooperation
Paul Weirich
17. Team Reasoning: Controversies and Open Research Questions
Natalie Gold
18. Distributive Cognitive Systems
Georg Theiner
19. Corporate Agency: The Lesson of the Discursive Dilemma
Phillip Pettit
Part IV Social Ontology
Introduction to Part IV
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
20. Social Construction and Social Facts
Brian Epstein
21. Social Groups
Paul Sheehy
22. Social Kinds
Ásta
23. Status Functions
John Searle
Part V Collectives and Responsibility
Introduction to Part V
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
24. Collective Intentions and Collective Moral Responsibility
Marion Smiley
25. Complicity
Saba Bazargan-Forward
26. Institutional Responsibility
Seumas Miller
Part VI Collective Intentionality and Social Institutions
Introduction to Part VI
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
27. Institutions and Collective Intentionality
Frank Hindriks
28. Collective Intentionality and Language
Marija Jankovic
29. Collective Intentionality in the Law
Gideon Yaffe
30. Collective Intentionality and Methodology in the Social Sciences
Deborah Perron Tollefsen
Part VII The Extent, Origins, and Development of Collective Intentionality
Introduction to Part VII
Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig
Biography
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).
"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
