Concepts of Sharedness

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions. The common aim of the papers is to explore the structure of shared intentional attitudes, and to explain how they underlie the social, cultural and institutional world. The contributions to this volume explore the phenomenology of sharedness, the concept of sharedness, and also various aspects of the structure of collective intentionality in general, and of the intricate relations between sharedness and normativity in particular. Concepts of Sharedness shows how rich and lively the philosophical research focused on the analysis of collective intentionality has become, and will provide further inspiration for future work in this rapidly evolving field.

Auteur
Nikos Psarros has studied Chemistry and Philosophy in Würzburg and Marburg. He received 1988 his Ph.D. in Chemistry and 1997 his Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Marburg. He is working since 1998 at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, where he was appointed 2004 extraordinary professor of Philosophy. Recent publications: Die Chemie und ihre Methoden Eine philosophische Betrachtung (Chemistry and its methods a philosophical approach), Weinheim 1999; Die Entwicklung sozialer Wirklichkeit (The evolution of social reality coedited with Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer und Georg Vobruba), Weilerswist 2003; Wilhelm Ostwald at the Crossroads of Chemistry, Philosophy, and Media Culture (coedited with Britta Görs and Paul Ziche), Leipzig 2004; Facetten des Menschlichen (Facets of the human nature - forthcoming). Katinka Schulte-Ostermann has studied Philosophy, East and Southeast European History and German Literature in Kiel and Leipzig. She obtained her MA phil. degree at the University of Leipzig in 2003. She works since 2005 as research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Recent publications: Basishandlungen und Intentionalität: Komplexe Handlungen oder über die Unmöglichkeit ein Menü zu kochen (Basic actions and intentionality: Aggregate actions, or about the impossibility to cook a menu, MA thesis) Leipzig 2002; Vier schlechte Verkaufsargumente für Enhancement-Techniken (Four bad selling arguments for Enhancement technologies), Dialektik 2006 (in the press).