The capacity to engage in collective intentionality is a key aspect of human sociality. Social
coordination might not be distinctive of humans—various nonhuman animals engage in …

Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing
tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such …

The various literature on collectivity have generally focused on collectives that are unified (or
assumed to be unified) by “shared intentions”: mental or intentional states (1) possessed by …

This chapter discusses when and how does collective intentionality develop? This question
has come into the focus of research in cognitive development in recent years with the …

Social interaction requires social cognition--the ability to perceive, interpret, and explain the
actions of others. This ability fundamentally relies on the concepts of intention and …

We live in an age of scientific collaboration, popular uprisings, failing political parties, and
increasing corporate power. Many of these kinds of collective action derive from the …

Humans share with many species the ability to act intentionally. Piaget (1936) demonstrated
that from 8–9 months human infants engage in coordinated means-ends behavior …

Current debates on collective intentionality focus on the cognitive capacities, attitudes, and
mental states that enable individuals to take part in joint actions. It is typically assumed that …

In this chapter I depart from the standard view of the individual in economics as an atomistic
being to consider the individual as a socially embedded being. There are of course many …

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of
topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters …