The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

The Routledge Handbook Of Collective Intentionality Provides A Wide-ranging Survey Of Topics In A Rapidly Expanding Area Of Interdisciplinary Research. It Consists Of 36 Chapters, Written Exclusively For This Volume, By An International Team Of Experts. What Is Distinctive About The Study Of Collective Intentionality Within The Broader Study Of Social Interactions And Structures Is Its Focus On The Conceptual And Psychological Features Of Joint Or Shared Actions And Attitudes, And Their Implications For The Nature Of Social Groups And Their Functioning. This Handbook Fully Captures This Distinctive Nature Of The Field And How It Subsumes The Study Of Collective Action, Responsibility, Reasoning, Thought, Intention, Emotion, Phenomenology, Decision-making, Knowledge, Trust, Rationality, Cooperation, Competition, And Related Issues, As Well As How These Underpin Social Practices, Organizations, Conventions, Institutions And Social Ontology. Like The Field, The Handbook Is Interdisciplinary, Drawing On Research In Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Legal Theory, Anthropology, Sociology, Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, And Political Science. Finally, The Handbook Promotes Several Specific Goals: (1) It Provides An Important Resource For Students And Researchers Interested In Collective Intentionality; (2) It Integrates Work Across Disciplines And Areas Of Research As It Helps To Define The Shape And Scope Of An Emerging Area Of Research; (3) It Advances The Study Of Collective Intentionality.-- Edited By Marija Jankovic And Kirk Ludwig. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Cover"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Introduction" -- "PART I: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND INTENTION" -- "Introduction to Part I" -- "1. Collective Action and Agency" -- "2. Non-Reductive Views of Shared Intention" -- "3. Reductive Views of Shared Intention" -- "4. Interpersonal Obligation in Joint Action" -- "5. Proxy Agency in Collective Action" -- "6. Coordinating Joint Action" -- "PART II: SHARED AND JOINT ATTITUDES" -- "Introduction to Part II" -- "7. Collective Belief and Acceptance" -- "8. Shared Values, Interests, and Desires" -- "9. Joint Attention" -- "10. Joint Commitment" -- "11. Collective Memory" -- "12. Collective Emotions" -- "13. Collective Phenomenology" -- "PART III: EPISTEMOLOGY AND RATIONALITY IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT" -- "Introduction to Part III" -- "14. Common Knowledge" -- "15. Collective Epistemology" -- "16. Rationality and Cooperation" -- "17. Team Reasoning: Controversies and Open Research Questions" -- "18. Groups as Distributed Cognitive Systems" -- "19. Corporate Agency: The Lesson of the Discursive Dilemma" -- "PART IV: SOCIAL ONTOLOGY" -- "Introduction to Part IV" -- "20. Social Construction and Social Facts" -- "21. Social Groups" -- "22. Social Kinds" -- "23. Status Functions" -- "PART V: COLLECTIVES AND RESPONSIBILITY" -- "Introduction to Part V" -- "24. Collective Intentions and Collective Moral Responsibility" -- "25. Complicity" -- "26. Institutional Responsibility" -- "PART VI: COLLECTIVE INTENTIONALITY AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS" -- "Introduction to Part VI" -- "27. Institutions and Collective Intentionality" -- "28. Collective Intentionality and Language" -- "29. Collective Intentionality in the Law" -- "30. Collective Intentionality and Methodology in the Social Sciences" -- "PART VII: THE EXTENT, ORIGINS, AND DEVELOPMENT OF COLLECTIVE INTENTIONALITY "The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to defines the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality."--Provided by publisher The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.-- Provided by Publisher The Handbook on Collective Intentionality brings together experts across a wide range of subjects concerned with the study of intentionality in the social context.