Sentence examples for collective intentional from inspiring English sources

Instead, he argues that collective intentional agency supervenes on individual intentional agency in ways that allow us to talk about both collective intentions and collective actions.

Thus, it seems that the commitments involved in collective intentional states are the individual commitments of each of the participants.

Collective intentional states are not just sets of run-of-the-mill individual intentional attitudes combined with common knowledge or mutual belief.

Collective intentional attitudes permeate our everyday lives, for instance when two or more agents look after or raise a child, campaign for a political party, or cheer for a sports team.

Instead, the idea underlying mode accounts is to spell out a distinction that can be applied to practical (or conative), to cognitive, and to affective intentional states, yielding a conceptual framework for analyzing the entire spectrum of collective intentional states.

In contrast to other accounts, Pettit's does not start from an analysis of joint action or collective intentional states, thus treating the issues of joint agency and group agency as distinguishable (cf. Pettit & Schweikard 2006).

She also co-owns Nebo restaurant on the island, whose all-women kitchen staff (I did not have the sense that this was a feminist collective or intentional, but I didn't ask) is turning out some good stuff; that might turn into a Magazine piece if I can get back up there before winter.

Swarns wrestles with this phenomenon, which might be compared to the Holocaust effect, "an almost willful, collective forgetting, an intentional loss of memory," and finally accepts it as the necessary censorship of trauma.

What happened next exemplified infant-toddler initiated and coordinated triadic play where the immersive soundscape of tapping spoons and shared gazing, joined three babies together in a rhythmic, spontaneously shared, yet intentional, collective experience.

This gift is the source of our distinctive capacity to choose our future as an intentional collective act.

But unlike Ms. Stevenson, who has stayed in the city since moving here in 1985 to attend Columbia University, Ms. Meyer was "a gypsy" in her adult life, she said, traveling the country with Renaissance fairs and moving between the collectives known as intentional communities, which are descendants of communes.