Collective intentionality

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The notion that collectives are capable of forming intentions can be found,
whether implicitly or explicitly, in literature going back thousands of years.
For example, ancient texts such as Plato's Republic discuss the cooperative
determination of laws and social order by the group composed of society as a
whole. This theme was later expanded into Social Contract theory by
Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. In
the 20th century, the likes of Wilfrid Sellars and Anthony Quinton noted
the existence of "We-Intentions" amid broader discussion of the concept of
intentionality, and thus laid the groundwork for the focused philosophical
analysis of collective intentionality that began in the late 1980s.