Concepts of Sharedness: Essays on Collective Intentionality

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the FifthConference on Collective Intentionality held at the Universityof Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 with two additionalcontributions. The common aim is to explore the structure ofshared intentional attitudes, and to explain how they underliethe social, cultural and institutional world. Contributors explorethe phenomenology and concept of sharedness, and also variousaspects of the structure of collective intentionality in general,and of the intricate relations between sharedness and normativityin particular. Concepts of Sharedness shows how rich andlively the philosophical research on this topic has become, andwill provide further inspiration for future work in this rapidlyevolving field.