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, there is more to A Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of Wild Castor Provides New Insights into its Adaptive Evolution in Tropical Desert 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In this commentary I argue that this claim is motivated by an outdated view of the nature and structure of collective attitudes.If we aim at a good theory of social ontology, we need The lived experience and career of an opera singer who stutters a good theory of collective intentionality.