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Theories of Intensionality

Author : David Parsons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811024847
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Intensionality written by David Parsons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality. It explores and assesses those key theories of intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of the examined theories is tested as to whether it can account for the problems associated with (A) the intersubstitution salva veritate of co-extensional expressions, and (B) existential generalisation. All of these theories are subsequently compared so as to determine which of them comes closest to successfully solving these problems. The book examines four kinds of intensionalist approaches: the Fregean approach (including Church's formalisation of Frege's theory); the possible-worlds approaches of Carnap, Montague and Cresswell; the theory of properties relations and propositions devised by Bealer; and the Meinongian approaches put forward by Zalta and Priest. The book also proposes an alternative to intensionalism: sententialism. Sententialists argue that the problems of intensionality could be solved by appealing to linguistic items (usually sentences) rather than intensional entities. Drawing on the works of Quine, Davidson, Scheffler and R. M. Martin, it explores the viability and value of sententialism as an alternative to intensionalism.

The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality

Author : Angela A. Mendelovici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863803
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality by : Angela A. Mendelovici

Download or read book The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality written by Angela A. Mendelovici and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendelovici proposes a novel theory of intentionality in terms of phenomenal consciousness, arguing that the view avoids the problems of its competitors and can accommodate a wide range of cases, including those of thought and nonconscious states.

Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality

Author : Dominik Perler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453296
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality written by Dominik Perler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses ancient and medieval theories of intentionality in various contexts: perception, imagination, and intellectual thinking. It sheds new light on classical theories (e.g. by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas) and examines neglected sources, both Greek and Latin. It includes contributions by J. Biard, M. Burnyeat, V. Caston, D. Frede, R. Gaskin, E. Karger, C. Michon, D. O'Meara, C. Panaccio, R. Pasnau, D. Perler, Ch. Rapp, P. Simons, R. Sorabji, and H. Weidemann.

Phenomenal Intentionality

Author : Uriah Kriegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199720525
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenal Intentionality written by Uriah Kriegel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970's, the main research program for understanding intentionality -- the mind's ability to direct itself onto the world -- has been based on the attempt naturalize intentionality, in the sense of making it intelligible how intentionality can occur in a perfectly natural, indeed entirely physical, world. Some philosophers, however, have remained skeptical of this entire approach. In particular, some have argued that phenomenal consciousness - - the subjective feel of conscious experience -- has an essential role to play in the theory of intentionality, a role missing in the naturalization program. Thus a number of authors have recently brought to the fore the notion of phenomenal intentionality, as well as a cluster of nearby notions. There is a vague sense that their work is interrelated, complementary, and mutually reinforcing, in a way that suggests a germinal research program. With twelve new essays by philosophers at the forefront of the field, this volume is designed to launch this research program in a more self-conscious way, by exploring some of the fundamental claims and themes of relevance to this program.

Husserl and Intentionality

Author : D.W Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401093830
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Husserl and Intentionality written by D.W Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has roots in our respective doctoral dissertations, both completed in 1970 at Stanford under the tutelage of Professors Dagfmn F øllesdal, John D. Goheen, and Jaakko Hintikka. In the fall of 1970 we wrote a joint article that proved to be a prolegomenon to the present work, our 'Intentionality via Intensions', The Journal of Philosophy 68 (1971). Professor Hintikka then suggested we write a joint book, and in the spring of 1971 we began writing the present work. The project was to last ten years as our conception of the project continued to grow at each stage. Our iritellectual debts follow the history of our project. During our dis sertation days at Stanford, we joined with fellow doctoral candidates John Lad and Michael Sukale and Professors Føllesdal, Goheen, and Hintikka in an informal seminar on phenomenology that met weekly from June of 1969 through March of 1970. During the summers of 1973 and 1974 we regrouped in another informal seminar on phenomenology, meeting weekly at Stanford and sometimes Berkeley, the regular participants being ourselves, Hubert Dreyfus, Dagfmn Føllesdal, Jane Lipsky McIntyre, Izchak Miller, and, in 1974, John Haugeland.

The Sources of Intentionality

Author : Uriah Kriegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199380317
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Sources of Intentionality written by Uriah Kriegel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do thoughts, hopes, paintings, words, desires, photographs, traffic signs, and perceptions have in common? They are all about something, are directed, are contentful - in a way chairs and trees, for example, are not. This book inquires into the source of this power of directedness that some items exhibit while others do not. An approach to this issue prevalent in the philosophy of the past half-century seeks to explain the power of directedness in terms of certain items' ability to reliably track things in their environment. A very different approach, with a venerable history and enjoying a recent resurgence, seeks to explain the power of directedness rather in terms of an intrinsic ability of conscious experience to direct itself. This book attempts a synthesis of both approaches, developing an account of the sources of such directedness that grounds it both in reliable tracking and in conscious experience.

The Meaning of Meaning

Author : Charles Kay Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Meaning written by Charles Kay Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Attitude Problems

Author : Graeme Forbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199274940
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Attitude Problems written by Graeme Forbes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

Intentionality

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273022
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Intentionality written by John R. Searle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-05-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentionality provides the philosophical foundations for Searle's earlier works, Speech Acts and Expression and Meaning.

Foundations of Intensional Semantics

Author : Chris Fox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775297
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Intensional Semantics written by Chris Fox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected in the past few decades. focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language proposes a theory that offers a promising framework for developing a computational semantic system sufficiently expressive to capture the properties of natural language meaning while remaining computationally tractable written by two leading researchers and of interest to students and researchers in formal semantics, computational linguistics, logic, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of language

Intensional Mathematics

Author : S. Shapiro
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080880045
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Intensional Mathematics written by S. Shapiro and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ``Platonism and intuitionism are rival philosophies of Mathematics, the former holding that the subject matter of mathematics consists of abstract objects whose existence is independent of the mathematician, the latter that the subject matter consists of mental construction... both views are implicitly opposed to materialistic accounts of mathematics which take the subject matter of mathematics to consist (in a direct way) of material objects...'' FROM THE INTRODUCTIONAmong the aims of this book are: - The discussion of some important philosophical issues using the precision of mathematics. - The development of formal systems that contain both classical and constructive components. This allows the study of constructivity in otherwise classical contexts and represents the formalization of important intensional aspects of mathematical practice. - The direct formalization of intensional concepts (such as computability) in a mixed constructive/classical context.

Mental Files

Author : François Recanati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199659982
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Mental Files written by François Recanati and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects.

Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type Theory

Author : Martin Hofmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447109635
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type Theory written by Martin Hofmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensional Constructs in Intensional Type Theory presents a novel approach to the treatment of equality in Martin-Loef type theory (a basis for important work in mechanised mathematics and program verification). Martin Hofmann attempts to reconcile the two different ways that type theories deal with identity types. The book will be of interest particularly to researchers with mainly theoretical interests and implementors of type theory based proof assistants, and also fourth year undergraduates who will find it useful as part of an advanced course on type theory.

Consciousness and Subjectivity

Author : Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110325845
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and Subjectivity written by Sofia Miguens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic–phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together analytically inspired philosophers working on the continent with English-speaking philosophers to address specific issues regarding subjectivity and consciousness. The issues range from acquaintance and immediacy in perception and apperception, to the role of agency in bodily ‘mine-ness’, to self-determination (Selbstbestimmung) through (free) action. Thus involving philosophers of different traditions should yield a deeper vision of consciousness and subjectivity; one relating the mind not only to nature, or to first-person authority in linguistic creatures–questions which, in the analytic tradition, are sometimes treated as exhausting the topic–but also to many other aspects of mind’s understanding of itself in ways which disrupt classic inner/outer boundaries.

Teleosemantics

Author : Graham Macdonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199270260
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Teleosemantics written by Graham Macdonald and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.

The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality

Author : Angela Mendelovici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190863811
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality by : Angela Mendelovici

Download or read book The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality written by Angela Mendelovici and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentionality is the mind's ability to be "of," "about," or "directed" at things, or to "say" something. For example, a thought might "say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is jolly, and a visual experience might be "of" a blue cup. While the existence of the phenomenon of intentionality is manifestly obvious, how exactly the mind gets to be "directed" at things, which may not even exist, is deeply mysterious and controversial. It has been long assumed that the best way to explain intentionality is in terms of tracking relations, information, functional roles, and similar notions. This book breaks from this tradition, arguing that the only empirically adequate and in principle viable theory of intentionality is one in terms of phenomenal consciousness, the felt, subjective, or qualitative feature of mental life. According to the theory advanced by Mendelovici, the phenomenal intentionality theory, there is a central kind of intentionality, phenomenal intentionality, that arises from phenomenal consciousness alone, and any other kind of intentionality derives from it. The phenomenal intentionality theory faces important challenges in accounting for the rich and sophisticated contents of thoughts, broad and object-involving contents, and nonconscious states. Mendelovici proposes a novel and particularly strong version of the theory that can meet these challenges. The end result is a radically internalistic picture of the mind, on which all phenomenally represented contents are literally in our heads, and any non-phenomenal contents we in some sense represent are expressly singled out by us.

The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy

Author : J.N. Mohanty
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400950497
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy written by J.N. Mohanty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays span a period of fourteen years. The earliest was written in 1960, the latest in 1983. They all represent various attempts to understand the motives and the central concepts of Husserl's transcen dental phenomenology, and to locate the latter in the background of other varieties of transcendental philosophy. Implicitly, they also con tain a defense of transcendental philosophy, and make attempts to respond to the more familiar criticisms against it. It is hoped that they will contribute to a better understanding not only of Husserl's transcen dental phenomenology but also of transcendental philosophy in gener al. The ordering of the essays is not chronological. They are rather divided thematically into three groups. The first group of six essays is concerned with relating Husserlian phenomenology to more contem porary analytic concerns: in fact, the opening essay on Husserl and Frege establishes a certain continuity of concern with my last published book with that title. Of these, Essay 2 was written for an American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division symposium in which the other symposiast was John Searle. The discussion in that symposium concentrated chiefly on the relation between intentionality and causali ty - which led me to write Essay 6, later read as the Gurwitsch Memo rial Lecture at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philos ophy meetings in 1982 at Penn State.