Collective Intentionality and Plural Pre-Reflective Self-Awareness

Pre-reflective and reflective self-reference: A spatiotemporal EEG analysis

Functional imaging studies consistently support the role of the medial prefrontal cortex to be a part of a functional network of reflective self-awareness. The current study introduces a new linguistic task which (1) directly compares self-reference and other-reference, and (2) separates pre-reflective from reflective aspects of self-awareness. Twenty-six healthy volunteers evaluated trait adje...

Team Reasoning and Collective Intentionality

Different versions of the idea that individualism about agency is the root of standard game theoretical puzzles have been defended by Regan 1980, Bacharach (Research in Economics 53: 117-147, 1999), Hurley (Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26: 264-265, 2003), Sugden (Philosophical Explorations 6(3):165-181, 2003), and Tuomela 2013, among others. While collectivistic game theorists like Michael Bac...

Husserl on Collective Intentionality

Reflective Intentions: Philosophical Concepts of Intentionality

A striking finding in experimental philosophy is that attributions of intentionality are sometimes influenced by seemingly external moral considerations. The most notable case of this phenomenon involves the intentionality of causing side-effects; causing a good side-effect is judged as unintentional while causing a bad side-effect is judged as intentional (Knobe, 2003a). I present a number of ...

Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness: On Being Bodily in the World

Empirical and experiential investigations allow the distinction between observational and nonobservational forms of subjective bodily experiences. From a first-person perspective, the biological body can be (1) an “opaque body” taken as an intentional object of observational consciousness, (2) a “performative body” pre-reflectively experienced as a subject/agent, (3) a “transparent body” pre-re...