Margaret Gilbert - Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together

I am indebted to all of those who have contributed to my thinking on the topics in this book over many years. Those whose input on a particular chapter has been helpful are thanked in the chapter itself.

In connection with this book my first thanks go to Peter Momtchiloff, who commissioned it for Oxford University Press, Oxford, with further thanks to all of those involved in the production process.

I am also grateful to Matthew Dean and Giulia Napolitano for helping in preparation of the manuscript, and to Tiffany Zhu for her help with the proofs and preparation of the indices.

Thanks to my students at UCI, both graduate and undergraduate, for probing discussions of many of the topics addressed, and to Jane Goldman for discussion of the project in its early stages and beyond. Thanks also to the staff of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine for their support, including the administration of the research funds provided through my position as Melden Chair of Moral Philosophy, which have been helpful in many ways.

Special thanks to Daniel Pilchman and James Weatherall, each of whom coauthored one of the articles that now constitute a chapter of this book. I would like also to thank Maura Priest for our collaborations on several articles on themes related to our life in groups.

More generally, I am grateful to many scholars for their interest in my work over the years. In some cases they have generously encouraged me to publish criticisms of their own viewsI am thinking in particular of the late David Lewis, and Thomas Scanlon.

Others have seriously engaged with my ideas, hosted or contributed to conferences for the discussion of them, and been supportive in other ways. There are far too many to list here in these connections but I should like to mention at least Donald Baxter, Paul Bloomfield, Alban Bouvier, Michael Bratman, Antonella Carassa, Marco Colombetti, Rowan Cruft, Stephen Darwall, Roberta De Monticelli, Francesca Di Lorenzo Ajello, Miranda Fricker, Itzel Garcia, John Greenwood, Gilbert Harman, Jeffrey Helmreich, Aaron James, Peter Jones, Christine Korsgaard, Saul Kripke, Noa Latham, David Lewis, Stephen Lukes, Ruth Millikan, Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Costanza Penna, Gerhard Preyer, Joseph Raz, Mark Sainsbury, Frederick Schmitt, Gopal Sreenivasan, Gabriele Taylor, Deborah Tollefsen, Michael Tomasello, Raimo Tuomela, Gary Watson, Leif Wenar, and Morton White.

I should also like to thank the American Philosophical Association for hosting several author-meets-critics sessions on my work along with other pertinent sessions at their meetings.

My work on this book took place during a worldwide pandemic. Much of my socializing has been on the phone or over the internet. I am deeply grateful to those colleagues, friends, and family members who have regularly provided conversation, consolation, and community during this time.

As always, my parents must bear the ultimate responsibility for this book as for everything I have ever done. I continue to be more than grateful to them not only for having me, but for their loving support and guidance throughout their lives.