Groups, Norms and Practices: Essays on Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality (Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality Book 13)

This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning. The book consists of three main sections. The first part contains essays demonstrating how researchers working on inferentialism and collective intentionality can learn from one another. The essays in the second part examine the dimensions along which philosophical and empirical research on human reasoning and collective intentionality can benefit from more cross-pollination. The final part consists of essays that offer a closer examination of themes from inferentialism and collective intentionality that arise in the work of Wilfrid Sellars. __Groups, Norms and Practices__ provides a template for continuing an interdisciplinary program in philosophy and the sciences that aims to deepen our understanding of human rationality, language use, and sociality. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction: Between Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality (Ladislav Koreň)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Rational Golems: Collective Agents as Players in the Reasoning Game (Javier González de Prado, Jesús Zamora-Bonilla)....Pages 21-38 Trust and Commitment in Collective Testimony (Leo Townsend)....Pages 39-58 Implicit Scorekeeping: A We-Mode Account of Belief and Interpretation (Ronald Loeffler)....Pages 59-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Normative Mindshaping and the Normative Niche (Jaroslav Peregrin)....Pages 85-98 Collective Intentionality, Inferentialism and the Capacity for Claim-Making (Glenda Satne)....Pages 99-118 Wherein is Reasoning Social? (Ladislav Koreň)....Pages 119-146 Making Sense of We-Awareness: Experiences, Affordances, and Practices (Anna Moltchanova)....Pages 147-170 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Belief Attribution as Indirect Communication (Christopher Gauker)....Pages 173-187 Sellars on Rational Agency as Presupposing Collective Attitudes (Jeremy Randel Koons)....Pages 189-213 Understanding What We Ought and Shall Do: A Hyperstate Semantics for Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Intentional Sentences (Preston Stovall)....Pages 215-238 Back Matter ....Pages 239-242