ABSTRACT

With very few exceptions, philosophy of mind has exclusively been concerned with individual intentions. Not all intentionality, however, is of the form ego cogito. There are intentional states of the form nos cogitamus, too. Among the most exciting recent developments in the philosophy of mind is the turn to a systematic analysis of the structure and role of collective intentions and beliefs. Philosophers such as Raimo Tuomela, Margaret Gilbert, John Searle, and Michael Bratman have put the analysis of shared intentionality on the map of philosophical thinking. Even though no consensus concerning the structure of collective intentionality has emerged as yet, this movement has substantially widened our view of the mind.