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In a thought-provoking article, Sondra Bacharach and Deborah Tollefsen advocate a perspective on coauthorship based on Margaret Gilbert’s ideas about collective action and responsibility. Bacharach and Tollefsen contend that their approach is more “nuanced” and “intuitively correct” than the other proposals in the literature, including the account that I have developed with reference to Michael E. Bratman’s work on shared intentions. 1 In what follows, I argue that Bacharach and Tollefsen’s judgments about putative counterexamples to my approach find no genuine support in Gilbert’s views. Our differences over certain types of examples stem, I suggest, from divergent assumptions about the nature of authorship in artistic contexts. I contend that the best way to advance the current debate on the topic of coauthorship and artistic collaboration is to clarify and assess the underlying assumptions about authorship …