Table Of ContentStudies in the Philosophy of Sociality 2
Anita Konzelmann Ziv
Hans Bernhard Schmid Editors
Institutions,
Emotions, and
Group Agents
Contributions to Social Ontology
Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents
Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
Volume 2
Editor-in-Chief
RaimoTuomela(Prof.Emer.,UniversityofHelsinki,UniversityofMunich)
ManagingEditors
HansBernhardSchmid(Prof.,UniversityofVienna)
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Acknowledgements
The project of this volume dates back to the 7th Conference on Collective
IntentionalityheldattheUniversityofBasel(Switzerland)onAugust23–27,2010
andorganizedbytheresearchgroup“CollectiveIntentionality—Phenomenological
Perspectives”. The chapters of this volume are a small selection of the papers
presentedatthatconference.
We are grateful to the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Max Geldner
Stiftung,theFreiwilligeAkademischeGesellschaftBaselandtheUniversityofBasel
fortheirgeneroussupportoftheconferenceandtheresearchleadingtothisvolume.
Also,wewishtothankUllaSchmid,KatharinaBernhard,andMichaelaBartsch
to whom we are indebted for the enormous amount of time and effort they have
spentonthisproject.
GenevaandVienna TheEditors
December2012
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Contents
1 Introduction: Institutions, Emotions, and Group
Agents—ContributionstoSocialOntology.............................. 1
AnitaKonzelmannZivandHansBernhardSchmid
PartI IntentionalityandInstitutions
2 DocumentActs.............................................................. 19
BarrySmith
3 SearleanReflectionsonSacredMountains.............................. 33
FilipBuekens
4 SocialObjectswithoutIntentions......................................... 53
BrianEpstein
5 TheLogicalFormofTotalitarianism..................................... 69
JenniferHudin
6 Groups,NormativityandDisagreement................................. 81
RodrigoE.Sa´nchezBrigido
7 Joint Actions, Social Institutions and Collective
Goods:ATeleologicalAccount............................................ 99
SeumasMiller
8 ThreeTypesofHeterotropicIntentionality.ATaxonomy
inSocialOntology .......................................................... 117
FrancescaDeVecchi
PartII SharedEmotionsandRecognition
9 EmergenceandEmpathy.................................................. 141
RonalddeSousa
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10 TheFunctionsofCollectiveEmotionsinSocialGroups ............... 159
MikkoSalmela
11 FeelingsofBeing-TogetherandCaring-With ........................... 177
H.Andre´sSa´nchezGuerrero
12 JoiningtheBackground:HabitualSentimentsBehind
We-Intentionality........................................................... 195
EmanueleCaminada
13 CollectiveIntentionalityandRecognitionfromOthers................ 213
ArtoLaitinen
14 The Conditions of Collectivity: Joint Commitment
andtheSharedNormsofMembership................................... 229
TitusStahl
PartIII CollectiveReasonsandGroupAgency
15 ActingoverTime,ActingTogether....................................... 247
MichaelE.Bratman
16 How Where We Stand Constrains Where I Stand:
Applying Bratman’s Account of Self-Governance
toCollectiveAction......................................................... 263
JosephKisolo-Ssonko
17 TeamReasoningandSharedIntention................................... 279
AbrahamSesshuRoth
18 CollectiveIntentionalityandPracticalReason.......................... 297
JulietteGloor
19 TheSANEApproachtoRealCollectiveResponsibility................ 313
SaraRachelChant
20 AreIndividualistAccountsofCollectiveResponsibility
MorallyDeficient?.......................................................... 329
Andra´sSzigeti
21 Can Groups Be Autonomous Rational Agents?
AChallengetotheList-PettitTheory.................................... 343
VukoAndric
22 DirectandIndirectCommonBelief ...................................... 355
EmilianoLoriniandAndreasHerzig
Chapter 1
Introduction: Institutions, Emotions, and Group
Agents—Contributions to Social Ontology
AnitaKonzelmannZivandHansBernhardSchmid
Socialontologyisthephilosophicalstudyofthebasicconstitutionandstructureof
thesocialworld.Socialontologyinvestigatesthekindsofentitiesthatmakeupthe
socialworld,itsdeontologicalstructure,itsrelationstophysicalnatureandmental
attitudes. Social ontology thus engages a wide array of domains in philosophy
and neighboring disciplines. Social and political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of
mind,andmetaphysicscontributetoresearchinsocialontology.Also,currentsocial
ontology is no pure armchair business. Sociology, legal theory, political science,
and economics provide insights into social structures and functions that cannot be
ignoredbysocialontology.Similarly,socialpsychology,historyandlinguisticscan
teach us relevant lessons about the mechanisms of establishing and overthrowing
socialpower.
The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in some
selectedareasofcurrentsocialontology.Theyarefocusedontheroleofcollective
intentionalstatesincreatingsocialfacts,andonthenatureofintentionalproperties
ofgroupsthatallowcharacterizingthemasresponsibleagents,orperhapsevenas
persons.Manyofthechaptersareinspiredbycontemporaryactiontheory,emotion
theory, and theories of collective intentionality. Another group of chapters revisits
early phenomenological approaches to social ontology, and accounts of sociality
thatdrawontheHegelianideaofrecognition.Thevarietyofphilosophicaltraditions
mirrored in this collection provides readers with a rich and multifaceted survey
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De´partementdePhilosophie,Universite´deGene`ve,2,RuedeCandolle,CH-1211Gene`ve,
Switzerland
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H.B.Schmid
Institutfu¨rPhilosophie,Universita¨tWien,Universita¨tsstraße7,1010Wien,Austria
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