Two studies investigated whether observers perceive collective intention and responsibility of a task group when a group member (i.e., a member of a company's board) committed a corporate crime. In Study 1, undergraduate students read a scenario describing a criminal case, in which the degree to which the group (i.e., the company's board) was likely to be perceived as a coherent acting agent (i...

The deenitions of cooperation to shared plans and joint intentionality have traditionally included subsidiary goals: they aim at coordinating the part of the group's action which goes beyond the control of individual intentionality. In this paper, we present a deenition of collective acting which explains goals aiming at the group's coordination as a result of the interaction of goal adoption, ...

Abstract This is a contribution to the controversy which of individual or collective intentionality more fundamental. I call it fundamentality-question. In first step, argue that really two questions. One about sense and one reference. The is: Can grasp understand concept and, correspondingly, individuality, on hand, without grasping understanding collectivity, other? second corresponding refer...

John Searle’s theory of social ontology posits that there are indispensable normative components in the linguistic apparatuses termed status functions, collective intentionality, and collective recognition, all of which, he argues, make the social world. In this paper, I argue that these building blocks of Searle’s social ontology are caught in a petitio of constitutive circularity. Mo...

Could we enrich speech-act theory to deal with discourse ? Wittgenstein and Searle pointed out difficulties. Most conversations lack a conversational purpose , their background is indefinitely open , they can contain irrelevant and infelicitous utterances , they require collective intentionality , etc.