ABSTRACT
‘Collective intentionality’, write Schweikard and Schmid in their recent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy review of the topic, ‘is the power of minds to be jointly directed at objects, matters of fact, states of affairs, goals, or values” (Schweikard and Schmid 2013). As Schweikard and Schmid’s broader overview indicates, and as reflected in the current volume, collective intentionality has been primarily deployed in recent discussions of human cognition and sociality. In particular, over the past 20 years, collective intentionality has been used to explore putatively distinct forms of human cooperation and conflict, the role of institutions in human social life, and even the broader nature of social reality itself (Gilbert 1996; Searle 1995; Tomasello 1999; Tuomela 2007).
