Overview
- Offers some new insights into the structure of collective intentionality
- Addresses the use of collective intentionality analysis in social science
- Widens the perspective of collective intentionality analysis to the history of thought
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 58)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Collective Intentionality Reconsidered
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Collective Intentionality in the Social Sciences
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Engaging the ‘Classics’: Four Critical Readings
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Back Matter
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About this book
Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions. This volume contributes to current research on collective intentionality by pursuing three aims. First, some of the main conceptual problems in the received literature are introduced, and a number of new insights into basic questions in the philosophy of collective intentionality are developed (part 1). Second, examples are given for the use of the analysis of collective intentionality in the theory and philosophy of the social sciences (part 2). Third, it is shown that this line of research opens up new perspectives on classical topics in the history of social philosophy and social science, and that, conversely, an inquiry into the history of ideas can lead to further refinement of our conceptual tools in the analysis of collective intentionality (part 3).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Hans Bernhard Schmid is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plural Action
Book Subtitle: Essays in Philosophy and Social Science
Editors: Hans Bernhard Schmid
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2437-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2436-7Published: 09 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8502-3Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2437-4Published: 30 May 2009
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 260
Topics: Philosophy, general, History of Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of the Social Sciences