An important feature of we-intentions in their role as creators of social institutions is that they can be iterated: given a we-intention of the form "X counts as Y in C," the "Y" in the intention may become the "X" in a higher-level intention.
Therefore, in this study we investigate how games can induce and cultivate we-intention of working as a group.
If the members of a group perform a joint action together, then this is in virtue of each of them having a we-intention of the form given here; e.g., their joint action of going to the Taj Mahal is performed in virtue of each having the we-intention to go to the Taj Mahal.
How do the we-intentions of individual participants have to be related to each other in order to constitute a genuine collective intention?
"We have no intention of sanctioning Iran; we recognize that sanctioning Iran would hurt Russia and China".
"If we had any intention of being terrorists, we would never have joined the N.Y.P.D".
"Muffin eats everything that we eat, and we have every intention of continuing to eat steak".
We have every intention of doing everything we can to make sure that goal is realized".
"We went there, but we had no intention of fighting," he said.
We fret about declining house prices when we have no intention of selling.
"We have no intention of doing that".
