Plural Action Essays in Philosophy and Social Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schmid, Hans Bernhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Contributions to Phenomenology, 58
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ontology.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy, general.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions. This volume contributes to current research on collective intentionality by pursuing three aims. First, some of the main conceptual problems in the received...

Table of Contents:

• Collective Intentionality Reconsidered
• Plural Action
• Overcoming the ‘Cartesian Brainwash’
• On Not Doing One's Part
• Shared Feelings
• Collective Intentionality in the Social Sciences
• Social Identities in Experimental Economics
• Rationalizing Coordination
• Beyond Self-Goal Choice
• Lending a Hand
• Engaging the ‘Classics’: Four Critical Readings
• Martin Heidegger and the ‘Cartesian Brainwash’
• ‘Volksgeist’
• Evolution by Imitation
• Consensus.