Introduction: Double Intentionality

Oceanic Double-diffusion: Introduction

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

Instrumental Intentionality

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Shared intentionality.

We argue for the importance of processes of shared intentionality in children's early cognitive development. We look briefly at four important social-cognitive skills and how they are transformed by shared intentionality. In each case, we look first at a kind of individualistic version of the skill -- as exemplified most clearly in the behavior of chimpanzees -- and then at a version based on s...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Cognition, Joint Action and Collective Intentionality

Many remember an Iron Lady claiming that there is no such thing as society but only individuals. Considerably less, we assume, are also aware that the same Lady granted existence also to families, and hence by extension to groups. If this Lady were a social philosopher, she could have continued her inquiry wondering whether families and groups, like individuals, can have intentional states. Can...