Who, or what, is a'person'according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood
come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Human beings act together in characteristic ways, and these forms of shared activity matter
to us a great deal. Think of friendship and love, singing duets, dancing together, and the joys …

We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and
languages, money and markets. These are all social objects-they are made, at least in part …

The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition introduces fundamental questions about the
mind from the perspective of phenomenology. One of the outstanding books in the field, now …

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved
in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example …

Collective intentionality is the power of minds to be jointly directed at objects, matters of fact,
states of affairs, goals, or values. Collective intentionality comes in a variety of modes …

This paper concerns the sociotechnical bases of human autonomy. Drawing on recent
literature on AI ethics, philosophical literature on dimensions of autonomy, and on …

The social sciences are unusual, as compared to the other sciences, with respect to how
they investigate the objects they work on. Chemists, for instance, take it to be an ordinary …

Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups. In the media or on the street, we might hear
that a specific country has a moral duty to defend human rights, that environmentalists have …