ABSTRACT
Margaret Gilbert’s view has been criticized for different reasons. The most common objection leveled against Gilbert’s position concerns the inadequacy of this proposal as an account of a collective affective intentional state. Drawing on Randall Collins’ analysis of the emergence of collective emotions in interaction rituals, Mikko Salmela offers an account of shared emotions that, among other things, aims at accommodating the crucial requirements of joint feeling discussed above. Based on interviews with the members of the Danish String Quartet, Alessandro Salice et al. discuss affective states that can arise in the course of joint musical performances. One virtue of these types of accounts is that they also accommodate the phenomenologically crucial idea that feelings play a key role in collective emotions.
