ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on the currently existing accounts of shared intentions that are available in the philosophical literature on collective intentionality. The focus is on non-reductive shared intentions, viz. shared intentions that are not individualistically reducible. The author focuses on the non-reductive accounts of shared or joint intention or collective intentions by Margaret Gilbert, John Searle, and Raimo Tuomela, who all have defended important accounts of non-reductive shared intentions. The present account of we-mode joint intentionality relates to a family of rich collective intention notions. It relies on the participants' we-thinking in a strong sense that conceptually requires a rather strong psychological bond between participants, yet a bond that is normally started to learn, understand, and apply as small children and have come to master as the years go by.
