Table of Contents

Aspects of Collective Intentionality.- Searle and Collective Intentions.- Foundations of Social Reality in Collective Intentional Behavior.- Joint Action: The Individual Strikes Back.- Collective Speech Acts.- From Intentions to Institutions: Development and Evolution.- The Ontogeny of Social Ontology: Steps to Shared Intentionality and Status Functions.- Social Reality and Institutional Facts: Sociality Within and Without Intentionality.- Aspects of Institutional Reality.- The Varieties of Normativity: An Essay on Social Ontology.- A Behavioural Critique of Searle's Theory of Institutions.- Searle versus Durkheim.- Searle's Derivation of Promissory Obligation.