 Some progress has been made towards extracting philosophical lessons from the empirical work indicating that joint attention has a role to play here, in the explanation of distinctively human aspects of cognitive and social development, and also – once that development is complete – in the explanation of the way in which some elementary social phenomena are transacted. (For several developmental examples, see the papers collected in Eilan, et al. 2005, and Seemann 2011; for a discussion of joint attention in adult cases of shared intention, see Fiebich and Gallagher, 2012, who argue that jointly attending has a basic, elementary status, as the most minimal instance of a joint action.)