CONSTITUTIVE ASPECTS OF JOINT ACTIVITY: PRERQUISITES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF REALIZING COOPERATIVE RELATIONS

Abstract

The article examines the dominant paradigm and current research state of the theoretical and practical dimension of cooperative behavior based on the notion of “collective intentionality” scrutinized within the framework of analytic social philosophy. Accordingly, the goal was to elaborate foundational normative, socio-ontological and psychological aspects of the debate around the underlying nature of the mechanisms of content, modality, and subjects of shared praxeological undertakings, outline major points of agreement, controversy and contention in positions and arguments of the principal sides and their proponents.

Keywords

• intentionality
• individualism
• externalism
• holism
• naturalism
• praxeology
• rational choice theory
• cooperation
• synergy
• shared intentions
• collectivism
• internalism
• instrumentalism