The unity and plurality of sharing

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ID21591920
AuthorsDan Zahavi (0000-0002-2869-4951, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume38
Issue5
Pages2003-2023
Publication date2025-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2023.2296596
OpenAlexW4390048335
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited41

Many accounts of collective intentionality target rather sophisticated types of cooperative activities, i.e., activities with complex goals that require prior planning and various coordinating and organizing roles. But although joint action is of obvious importance, an investigation of collective intentionality should not merely focus on the question of how we can share agentive intentions. We can act and do things together, but it is not obvious that the awe felt and shared by a group of Egyptologists when they gain entry to a newly discovered pharaonic tomb can or should be analyzed in the same way as, say, a heist that a group of criminals carefully plan and execute together. The aim of the article is to better understand the kind of emotional sharing that can occur between two individuals who are perceptually co-present. Does the sharing involve a kind of phenomenal fusion? Is it a matter of sharing one and the same token experience? It will be argued that both of these recent suggestions must be rejected as misleading in favor of an account that sees emotional sharing as a form of emotional integration that involves constitutively interdependent processes of empathy, second-personal address, and identification

Abstraction · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Collective action · Empathy · Epistemology · Intentionality · Interdependence · Mirroring · Political science · Security token · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Psychology · Social Psychology

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