ABSTRACT
The standard approach to collective action and agency is to take the very best accounts of individual action and agency and simply “collectivize” them. Since the very best accounts of individual action theory depend on an agent’s intentions and other mental states, when “collectivized,” the result is a collective action theory that depends on collective agents that have collective intentions and other collective mental states. Let us call this collectivizing method the “wash, rinse and repeat” (WRR) approach to collective action theory.
