ABSTRACT

There is more to the social world than groups and their intentional states. Work on collective intentionality, by and large, involves the analysis of groups of people—their actions and attitudes, reasoning and mental states. Groups, however, are only one sort of social entity. Corporations, restaurants, contracts, musical performances, works of art, technical artifacts, money, bank accounts, mortgages: all of these are elements of the social world. These do not appear to be collectives or groups. Nor do they seem to be attitudes.