Many attempts to understand collective intentionality have tried to steer between two
extremes. We want to understand how the members of a group are bound together, what …

In this paper, I claim that both being and meaning constitute human actions. We can only
apprehend their meaning through our phenomenological experiences of them as being. The …

In this paper, I address the question of how to account for the normative dimension involved
in conceptual competence in a naturalistic framework. First, I present what I call the naturalist …

What enables everyday collective attitudes such as the intention of two persons to go for a
walk together? Most current approaches are concerned with full-fledged collective attitudes …

Social appropriateness is an important topic–both in the human-human interaction (HHI),
and in the human-machine interaction (HMI) context. As sociosensitive and socioactive …

In the last years, the gap between social philosophy and sociological theory grew
considerably. It has not always been like this–just think of Habermas, who not only had a …

The ontology of society built by John Searle consists of two parts. The first concerns the
definition of a social fact as the establishment of a status function by means of collective …

" Dimensions of Shared Agency" investigates the way in which standard philosophical
accounts have been dealing with the issue of collective actions. In particular, the book …

The article focuses on the feelings and the emotions involved when working or acting in a
group rather as an individual. It talks about feelings and sentiments like resentment …

What can philosophy contribute to the study of intention? A fairly neutral, noncontentious
description of philosophy that most practitioners and observers of philosophy will be able to …