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What Is Common in Accounts of Common Ground?

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Tenenberg, Roth, and Socha’s paper “From I-awareness to we-awareness in CSCW” is, or should be, of special significance to those in the CSCW and HCI communities with more than a passing interest in the theoretical issues that underpin our work. It can be argued, and I would be a proponent of this view, that fundamental intellectual disagreements too seldom get an airing in our community, perhaps because it is in large part conference driven. Because of this, underlying perspectival disagreements can appear rather arcane. One of the great merits of the contributions to this special issue, I hope and believe, is that they will appear less so after careful reading.

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  1. In passing and for the sake of clarity, let us note that the core of Wittgenstein’s later linguistic philosophy is predicated on the view that ‘representational’ theories of language are, quite simply, wrong. That is, that the existence of a word like ‘intention’ does not necessarily point to the existence of a thing, ‘intention’ (we should also note that nowhere does Wittgenstein suggest that a word cannot be used to denote an object, only that we should not presuppose that it does.)

  2. Note that Searle is a ‘cognitivist’ in only one sense, which is that he is committed to the view that there is a causal relation between mental attitudes, such as beliefs, and action. He emphatically does not subscribe to the so-called computational theory of mind upon which much cognitive science is based.

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Randall, D. What Is Common in Accounts of Common Ground?. Comput Supported Coop Work 25, 409–423 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-016-9256-7

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