ABSTRACT
Sellars does too little to explain what, precisely, a we-intention is. In this chapter, I draw on recent accounts (like those of Gilbert and Tuomela) to enrich the Sellarsian account of we-intentions. The resulting account rejects singularism—it denies that group intentions are reducible to personal intentions—but argues that this move is consistent with Sellars’s strict naturalism. Various elements of these more recent accounts are adapted to comport with various other features of Sellars’s project, such as his pragmatism and his view that an individual can express a we-intention not shared by the larger group. I conclude with some remarks on how Sellars’s account, while lending itself easily to a social practice account of rules and norms, offers a defense against relativism.
