We thank Jason Alexander, Christian List, David McCarthy, Tom Smith, Robert Sugden and two anonymous reviewers of this journal for helpful input and are further grateful to the organizers and audiences of Perspectives on We-Thinking in Trento, Nudge: Joint Action Workshop in Warwick, the Choice Group at the London School of Economics, and the members of the 2009-10 Fellows' Reading Group at the Center for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, where preliminary versions of this material were presented. Gold's research was supported by an award from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. During the revisions to this article, Harbour was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom, via Project
(Atomic Linguistic Elements of Phi), Sub-Project
(We And We-intentions), grant AH/G019274/1.
Cognitive Primitives of Collective Intentions: Linguistic Evidence of Our Mental Ontology
Article first published online: 26 MAR 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2012.01437.x
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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GOLD, N. and HARBOUR, D. (2012), Cognitive Primitives of Collective Intentions: Linguistic Evidence of Our Mental Ontology. Mind & Language, 27: 109–134. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2012.01437.x
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