Gerhard Preyer: Professor of Sociology, Research fields: sociological theory and comparative sociology, philosophy of language and mind. Editor-In-Chief of ProtoSociology: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. He is author and editor of, among other works, Intention of Practical Thoughts (2011), Donald Davidson's Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2nd edition, 2011), and Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental (Oxford, 2012).

Georg Peter: Dr. Phil Georg Peter's research concerns philosophy of language, aesthetics, social ontology, and hermeneutics. He is author and editor of, among other works, together with R. Tuomela, G. Preyer, Understanding the Social II: Philosophy of Sociality (ProtoSociology 18/19), with G. Preyer: Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism (OUP 2007), Contextualism in Philosophy (OUP 2005), Logical Form and Language (OUP 2002). He is co-editor of Selbstbeobachtung der modernen Gesellschaft (Springer 2012).

Features a critical evaluation of the recent work of philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela on social institutions and group agents

Offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate

Includes eight essays as well as a response to each by Tuomela himself

Part I. Collective Intentionality, Membership, and Reasoning.- Kirk Ludwig: Methodological Individualism, the We-mode, and Team reasoning.- Response.- Michael Schmitz: What is a Mode Account of Collective Intentionality?.- Response.- Hans Bernhard Schmid: What Kind of Mode is the We-Mode? On Raimo Tuomela's Account of Collective Intentionality.- Response.- David Schweikard: Voluntary Groups, Noncompliance, and Conflicts of Reasons: Tuomela on Acting as a Group-Member.- Response.- Raul Hakli, Pekka Mäkelä: Planning in the We-mode.- Response.- Part II. Social Ontology and Social Institutions.- Arto Laitinen: We-mode Collective Intentionality and its Place in Social Reality.- Response.- Martin Rechenauer: Tuomela meets Burge. Another Argument for Anti-Individualism.- Response.- Frank Hindriks: Group Agents and Social Institutions: Beyond Tuomela's Social Ontology.- Response.- Index.