ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters in the second part of this book. The part of the book reviews a range of proposals that have been made about the analysis of group belief and acceptance. It looks at the various senses in which values, and interests, and desires can be shared, and their significance for collective action. The part focuses on a capacity that forms part of the infrastructure for effective joint action. It focuses on collective memory both in philosophy and in psychology and the social sciences. The part discusses the account in relation to individual action and then in application to collective action, and argues that there is room for analogous states in groups, and against a strictly distributive understanding of such group emotions.
