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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a
wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of
interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written
exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts.
What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality
within the broader study of social interactions and structures is
its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or
shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature
of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully
captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes
the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought,
intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge,
trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues,
as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations,
conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the
Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy,
cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology,
sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political
science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1)
it provides an important resource for students and researchers
interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work
across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the
shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances
the study of collective intentionality.
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a
wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of
interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written
exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts.
What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality
within the broader study of social interactions and structures is
its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or
shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature
of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully
captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes
the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought,
intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge,
trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues,
as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations,
conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the
Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy,
cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology,
sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political
science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1)
it provides an important resource for students and researchers
interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work
across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the
shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances
the study of collective intentionality.
Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and
applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic
semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic
truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to
serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory.
Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the
approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range
of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers,
proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives,
quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses,
temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential
complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and
the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not
only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but
consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They
conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in
light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the
program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will
find this book invaluable.
Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important
philosophers of the late twentieth century. His work on language
and the theory of meaning has been particularly influential.Two of
the world's leading authorities on Davidson's philosophy, Ernest
Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, provide a systematic exposition of his work
in this field and of his contributions to philosophy of mind,
metaphysics, and epistemology which spring from it. Their second
aim is to assess Davidson's program critically, to mark its
successes, but also to identify where its ccomplishments fall short
of its ambitions, and, since it is an on-going research program, to
assess its prospects for the future, and to contribute to the
expansion of that program. Criticizing and extending Davidson's
thought, as well as providing an introduction to it, Lepore and
Ludwig address a broad academic audience. Their work will be of
fundamental importance for those who are coming to Davidson's work
for the first time; while some philosophical sophistication and
training is presupposed, it is accessible both to advanced
undergraduates and to graduate students. It will also be welcomed
by professional philosophers, linguists, and anyone wishing to
assess and understand Davidson's remarkable intellectual legacy.
Written by a distinguished roster of philosophers, this volume includes chapters on truth and meaning; the philosophy of action; radical interpretation; philosophical psychology; knowledge of the external world; other minds and our own minds; and the implications of Davidson's work for literary theory. Donald Davidson has been one of the most influential figures in modern analytic philosophy and has made significant contributions to a wide range of subjects. Embodied in a series of landmark essays stretching over nearly 40 years, his principal work exhibits a unity rare among philosophers contributing on so many diverse fronts. Kirk Ludwig, the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has taught at the University of Florida's Department of Philosophy since 1995. His areas of research specialization include philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. He has contributed chapters to a number of volumes on these topics as well as published articles in Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind and Language, and elsewhere.
Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present the definitive critical
exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson
(1917-2003). Davidson's ideas had a deep and broad influence in the
central areas of philosophy; he presented them in brilliant essays
over four decades, but never set out explicitly the overarching
scheme in which they all have their place. Lepore's and Ludwig's
book will therefore be the key work, besides Davidson's own, for
understanding one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth
century.
Written by a distinguished roster of philosophers, this volume includes chapters on truth and meaning; the philosophy of action; radical interpretation; philosophical psychology; knowledge of the external world; other minds and our own minds; and the implications of Davidson's work for literary theory. Donald Davidson has been one of the most influential figures in modern analytic philosophy and has made significant contributions to a wide range of subjects. Embodied in a series of landmark essays stretching over nearly 40 years, his principal work exhibits a unity rare among philosophers contributing on so many diverse fronts. Kirk Ludwig, the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, has taught at the University of Florida's Department of Philosophy since 1995. His areas of research specialization include philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. He has contributed chapters to a number of volumes on these topics as well as published articles in Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind and Language, and elsewhere.
Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional
action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing
that it can be understood exhaustively in terms of the agency of
individuals and concepts constructed out of materials that are
already at play in our understanding of individual action. He thus
argues for a strong form of methodological individualism. The book
provides a new account of the logical form of grammatically
singular group action sentences (e.g. 'Company laid off 10,000
workers'), and features new analyses of the concepts of a
constitutive rule, status function, status role, collective
acceptance, and proxy agency. He also provides an analysis of the
structure of corporate action, including the status of corporations
as legal persons, and of the nature of state action in relation to
its citizens. This is the companion volume to From Individual to
Plural Agency (OUP 2016), extending the multiple-agents account of
collective action set out in the earlier volume.
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