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This is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the philosophy of education in a new key. Collective intentionality, as an example of concept development, involves two or more individuals who attempt to follow an agreed upon course of action together. It is a simple notion yet also contains within it several philosophical questions and assumptions: is the act of agreement a form of goal setting? Do group goals need to be explicit? Does collective intentionality imply the concept of obligation?(For instance, can participants pull out, even if they gave initial consent?) To what extent can members disagree with one another over a course of action when it is underway and still remain faithful to the original objective (Gilbert, 1990)? Can group consent be broken and if so in what ways? Does collective intentionality discourage criticism in the interests of …