Collective Attitudes and the Anthropocentric View

Collective Attitudes and the Anthropocentric View

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The anthropocentric view holds that the social world is a projection of mental states and attitudes onto the real world.However, Ashtrays there is more to a society of individuals than their psychological make up.In The Ant Trap, Epstein hints at the possibility that collective intentionality can, and should, be discarded as a pillar of social ontology.In this commentary I argue that this claim is motivated by an BRAZIL ACAI outdated view of the nature and structure of collective attitudes.If we aim at a good theory of social ontology, we need a good theory of collective intentionality.