Georg Theiner (Villanova University)
Canvassing the extant literature on group cognition, I reveal the influence of anthropocentric bias with respect to 1) the presupposition that a robust account of group cognition ought to show that groups are minded in the same sense (although not necessarily to the same degree) that individual human beings are; 2) the type of cognitive architecture which is taken to be required for constituting a cognitive system; 3) the characterization of intelligent behavior which the workings of a cognitive system are meant to explain; and 4) the criteria that are used for demarcating the boundaries of a cognitive system.
