The Routledge Handbook 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 define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.

Marija Jankovic is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. Her areas of research are collective intentionality and philosophy of language. Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He works in philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His most recent books are From Individual to Plural Agency (2016) and From Plural to Institutional Agency (2017).

Introduction Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig Part I Collective Action and Intention Introduction to Part I Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 1. Collective Action and Agency Sarah Chant 2. Non-Reductive Views of Shared Intention Raimo Tuomela 3. Reductive Views of Shared Intention Facundo Alonso 4. Interpersonal Obligation in Joint Action Abe Roth 5. Proxy Agency in Collective Action Kirk Ludwig 6. Coordinating Joint Action Stephen Butterfill Part II Shared and Joint Attitudes Introduction to Part II Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 7. Collective Belief and Acceptance Fred Schmitt 8. Shared Values, Interests, and Desires Bryce Huebner and Marcus Hedahl 9. Joint Attention John Campbell 10. Joint Commitment Margaret Gilbert 11. Collective Memory Kourken Michaelian and John Sutton 12. Collective Emotions Hans Bernhard Schmid 13. Collective Phenomenology Elisabeth Pacherie Part III Epistemology and Rationality in the Social Context Introduction to Part III Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 14. Common Knowledge Harvey Lederman 15. Collective Epistemology Jennifer Lackey 16. Rationality and Cooperation Paul Weirich 17. Team Reasoning: Controversies and Open Research Questions Natalie Gold 18. Distributive Cognitive Systems Georg Theiner 19. Corporate Agency: The Lesson of the Discursive Dilemma Phillip Pettit Part IV Social Ontology Introduction to Part IV Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 20. Social Construction and Social Facts Brian Epstein 21. Social Groups Paul Sheehy 22. Social Kinds Ásta 23. Status Functions John Searle Part V Collectives and Responsibility Introduction to Part V Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 24. Collective Intentions and Collective Moral Responsibility Marion Smiley 25. Complicity Saba Bazargan-Forward 26. Institutional Responsibility Seumas Miller Part VI Collective Intentionality and Social Institutions Introduction to Part VI Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig 27. Institutions and Collective Intentionality Frank Hindriks 28. Collective Intentionality and Language Marija Jankovic 29. Collective Intentionality in the Law Gideon Yaffe 30. Collective Intentionality and Methodology in the Social Sciences Deborah Perron Tollefsen Part VII The Extent, Origins, and Development of Collective Intentionality Introduction to Part VII Marija Jankovic and Kirk Ludwig