We, Together: The Social Ontology of Us

by Hans Bernhard Schmid

Who are we and what do we do as agents living together?

In We, Together, Hans Bernhard Schmid argues, first, that our living together is a joint activity. Joint activities involve shared intentions, and shared intentions have plural intentional subjects. We are, thus, the plural subjects of our shared intentions in the same way as we are the singular subjects of our individual intentions: through pre-reflective self-awareness. Just as there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197563724
• ISBN13: 9780197563724
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"