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We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood

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ID3058799
AuthorsDan Zahavi (0000-0002-2869-4951)
Year2021
Volume7
Issue1
Pages1-20
Publication date2021-07-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Ontology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2196-9663 • E-ISSN: 2196-9655
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jso-2020-0076
OpenAlexW3142317680
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited33

The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of thecommunity firstview and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of) a we. In presenting this argument, the article seeks to demonstrate that a thorough investigation of collective intentionality has to address the status and nature of the we, and that doing so will require an analysis of the relation between the we and the I, which in turn will call for a more explicit engagement with the question of selfhood than is customary in contemporary discussions of collective intentionality

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Individualism · Intentionality · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Free Will and Agency · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works29
Citations per year5,8
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 29

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