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Kirk Ludwig

Indiana University

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Philosophy Department & Cognitive Science Program

1022 E. Third St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-7005

United States

http://www.indiana.edu/~socrates/

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“  I am currently working on papers on the social construction of legal norms, group speech acts, modal semantics, conventions and status functions, Davidson's Locke Lectures, and a introduction to collective intentionality with Marija Jankovic for Routledge.  ”

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The Social Construction of Legal Norms

"The Social Construction of Legal Norms." In Social Ontology, Normativity and Law, eds. M. Garcia-Godinez, R. Mellin, R. Tuomela, De Gruyter, 2020: 179-208.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Legal Norms, Social Construction, Status Function, Status Role, Proxy Agency, Legal Authority

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Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind

Ludwig, Kirk and Susan Schneider. "Fodor's Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind," Mind and Language, 2008, 23: 123-143.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig and Susan Schneider
Indiana University and University of Pennsylvania
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Jerry Fodor, Classical Computational Theory of Mind. Globality Argument

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The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First Person versus Third Person Approaches

Ludwig, Kirk. 'The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First Person versus Third Person Approaches,' Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy and the Empirical, 2007, 31(1): 128-159.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Thought Experiments, Experimental Philosophy, Conceptual Analysis, Case Method in Philosophy

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What Are Group Speech Acts?

Ludwig, Kirk. "What Are Group Speech Acts?" Language and Communication, 2020 70: 46-58.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Collective Speech Acts, Group Speech Acts, Proxy Agent, Spokesperson, Shared Intention, Status Function

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From Individual to Collective Responsibility: There and Back Again

"From Individual to Collective Responsibility: There and Back Again," in The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility, eds. Saba Bazargan-Forward and Deborah Tollefsen, 2019.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Collective Responsibility, Individual Responsibility, Collective Action

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The Ontology of Collective Action

Ludwig, Kirk. (2014). "The Ontology of Collective Action," in From Individual to Collective Intentionality: New Essays, eds. S. Chant, F. Hindriks, G. Preyer, Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Collective Action, Joint Action, Instituational Agency

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What Are Conditional Intentions?

"What are Conditional Intentions?" Methode: Analytic Perspectives, 2015, 4(6): 30-60.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Intention, Conditional Intention, Contingency Planning

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Collective Intentionality

"Collective Intentionality," with Marija Jankovic, in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Social Science, ed., Lee McIntyre and Alex Rosenberg, New York: Routledge, 2016.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig and Marija Jankovic
Indiana University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Collective Intentionality, Shared Intention, Collective Agency, Group Agency

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Proxy Agency in Collective Action

NOUS 48:1 (2014) 75-105
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Jul 2015
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Proxy Agency, Collective Action, Joint Action, Constitutive Rules, Status Functions

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Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics

Noûs , Vol. 41, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 355-393
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2012
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Collective Action, Join Action, Joint Intention, Collective Intention

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What Is Minimally Cooperative Behavior?

Ludwig, Kirk. 'What is Minimally Cooperative Behavior?' In Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency, ed. Anika Fiebich, Springer, 2020: 9-40.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Minimal Cooperation, Cooperation, joint intentional action, collective action, shared agency

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Do Corporations Have Minds of Their Own?

"Do Corporations Have Minds of Their Own?" special issue of Philosophical Psychology on Collective Intentionality and Socially Extended Minds, eds. Mattia Galloti and Bryce Huebner, 2017 30 (3): 265-297.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Corporate Agency, Group Agency, Proxy Agency, Collective Action

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Truth-Theoretic Semantics and Its Limits

"Truth-Theoretic Semantics and Its Limits,” Argumenta, special issue on the centenary of Donald Davidson’s birth, edited by Mario De Caro and Cristina Amoretti, 2017, 3(1): 21-38.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Meaning, Truth, Semantics, Donald Davidson, Truth-theoretic Semantics, Communication

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Shared Agency in Modest Sociality

Journal of Social Ontology 2015; 1(1): 7-15
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Jul 2015
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Collective Action, Shared Intention, Joint Action, Sociality, Michael Bratman

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Is Distributed Cognition Group Level Cognition?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Jul 2015
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Distributed Cognition, Group Minds, Problem Solving, Transactive Memory Systems, joint action, group cognition

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Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement

Ludwig, Kirk and Wade Munroe. "Unconscious Inference Theories of Cognitive Achievement." In Inference and Consciousness, eds. Anders Nes and Timothy Chan, 2020 15-39.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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inference, content, representation, unconscious inference, subpersonal, modularity

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Proxy Assertion

Ludwig, Kirk. "Proxy Assertion." In Oxford Handbook of Assertion, ed. S. Goldberg, Oxford University Press, 2020: 307-326.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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assertion proxy assertion, spokesperson, group agency, proxy agency, status functions

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Methodological Individualism, the We-Mode, and Team Reasoning

"Methodological Individualism, the We-mode, and Team Reasoning," in Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter, 2017.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University
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Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, Methodological Individualism, Collective Agency, Collective Action, Group Agents, Team Reasoning

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Corporate Speech in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission

"Corporate Speech in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission," SpazioFilosofico: Agency, vol. 16, February 2016. https://www.spaziofilosofico.it/en/numero-16/6059/corporate-speech-in-citizens-united-vs-federal-election-commission/
Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Kirk Ludwig
Indiana University

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Corporate Speech, First Amendment, Collective Agency, Proxy Agency, Citizens United