HFIK13031U Collective intentionality - KA tilvalg
The master’s elective study in Philosopy 2019 curricullum
Kurset svarer til Udvalgt emne inden for fænomenologi og bevidsthedsfilosofi
Collective intentionality.
In philosophy of mind, “intentionality” refers to the fact that consciousness is directed at or about objects or states of affairs. In addition to cases such as “seeing a rose,” “thinking about Venice” or “imagining a pixie”, people can also be directed at objects and states of affairs together. We can “plan a vacation”, “enjoy a movie” or “protest against the budget cuts” together.
Whenever we do things together, whenever we jointly attend
to something, or share an emotion, we can be said to engage in
collective intentionality. But
what exactly is collective intentionality?
In the last twenty or thirty years, this question has started to
attract a steadily growing attention, mainly within analytic
philosophy of action. However, the recent debate has by and
large neglected the fact that very similar investigations were
conducted by phenomenologists such as Gurwitsch, Husserl,
Reinach, Scheler, Schutz, Stein, and Walther during the first half
of the last century. Thus, phenomenology offers not only
sophisticated analyses of consciousness, subjectivity and
intentionality, but also elaborate investigations of how
individuals are experientially interrelated and the suggestion that
shared intentionality might be based on interpersonal understanding
and reciprocal recognition.
The main purpose of this course is to analyze and discuss both contemporary and classical accounts of collective intentionality. Various central texts by the figures listed above will be compared and contrasted to more recent discussions in analytic philosophy in order to assess whether and how phenomenological insights can elucidate the nature of collective intentionality and the status of the we.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 388
- Total
- 388
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examination
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HFIK13031U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- .
- Study board
- Study Board of Media, Cognition and Communication
Contracting department
- Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Dan Zahavi (zahavi@hum.ku.dk)