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Intentionality is a philosophical concept and is defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs". The term refers to the ability of the mind to form representations and should not be confused with intention. The once obsolete term dates from medieval scholastic philosophy, but in more recent times it has been resurrected by Franz Brentano and adopted by Edmund Husserl. The earliest theory of intentionality is associated with St. Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God, and with his tenets distinguishing between objects that exist in the understanding and objects that exist in reality.
Intentionality should not be confused with intensionality, a related concept from logic and semantics.
The concept of intentionality was reintroduced in 19th-century contemporary philosophy by the philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano in his work Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874). Brentano described intentionality as a characteristic of all acts of consciousness that are thus "psychical" or "mental" phenomena, by which they may be set apart from "physical" or "natural" phenomena.
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John Searle at the University of Cologne American Philosopher accepts Albertus Magnus Professorship 2013 John Searle is one of the most important philosophers of language of our time. As Albertus Magnus Professor, he will be holding lectures and a seminar on the themes of "Language and Social Ontology", "Mind and Brain" as well as "Perception and Intentionality" from 6th till 8th May, 2013 at the University of Cologne. John Searle is the ninth personality of international repute to accept the Albertus Magnus Professorship established in 2005. With this invitation, the University of Cologne is also honouring the memory of the medieval polymath Albertus Magnus (1193 -- 1280), one of the intellectual fathers of the University of Cologne (founded in 1388), who oversaw the general studies of...
The second video in Dr. Richard Brown's philosophy of mind course. In this video we discuss intentionality, intentional inexistence, folk psychology, sense and reference, singular thought, causal historical theories, the language of thought hypothesis, tracking theories of intentionality, Milikan's Biosemantics, and (briefly) conceptual role semantics.
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For more resources visit: http://www.reasonablefaith.org On February 1st, 2013 at Purdue University, Dr William Lane Craig participated in a debate with Dr Alex Rosenberg on the topic, "Is Faith In God Reasonable?" Over 5,000 people watched the event on the Purdue University campus along with tens of thousands streaming it live online from around the world. This clip is the fifth of eight arguments that Dr Craig presented in his opening statement. We welcome your comments in the Reasonable Faith forums: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/forums/ Be sure to also visit Reasonable Faith's other channel: http://www.youtube.com/reasonablefaithorg Follow Reasonable Faith on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rfupdates Add Reasonable Faith on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/reasonablefaithorg
The 5th video in Dr Richard Brown's philosophy of mind course. In this video we discuss representational or intentional approaches to consciousness. We discuss the difference between first-order and higher-order theories, evidence for unconscious mental perceptions, change blindness and whether it is an objection to higher-order theories, dental fear and unconscious pain, and the function of consciousness.
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Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B007L7LSOW/book In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is only through practices and discourses of social mirroring that individuals come to apply these features to themselves and to shape their architectures for volition and cognition accordingly. Developing a (social science) constructive approach within a (cognitive science) representational framework, Prinz argues that the architectures for agency (volition) and intentionality (cognition) arise from particular kinds of social interaction and communication. Rather than working as closed, individual systems, our minds operate in ways that are fundamentally open to other minds. Prinz ...
'Intentionality' is a philosophical term that describes the elements of mental states that are 'directed' at things or ideas—the fact that thinking, feeling, hoping, believing, desiring are 'about' things. How can physical brain processes—electric currents and chemical concentrations—be 'about' things? Intentionality, some claim, is a problem for physicalists. From the PBS series 'Closer to Truth', presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Click here to buy episodes/seasons of Closer To Truth and show your support: http://bit.ly/cttmaximus
'Intentionality' is a philosophical term that describes the elements of mental states that are 'directed' at things or ideas—the fact that thinking, feeling, hoping, believing, desiring are 'about' things. How can physical brain processes—electric currents and chemical concentrations—be 'about' things? Intentionality, some claim, is a problem for physicalists. From the PBS series 'Closer to Truth', presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Click here to buy episodes/seasons of Closer To Truth and show your support: http://bit.ly/cttmaximus
'Intentionality' is a philosophical term that describes the elements of mental states that are 'directed' at things or ideas—the fact that thinking, feeling, hoping, believing, desiring are 'about' things. How can physical brain processes—electric currents and chemical concentrations—be 'about' things? Intentionality, some claim, is a problem for physicalists. From the PBS series 'Closer to Truth', presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Click here to buy episodes/seasons of Closer To Truth and show your support: http://bit.ly/cttmaximus
KINDS OF MINDS CHAPTER 2: INTENTIONALITY Daniel Dennett - Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness Read by the author. Daniel Dennett is Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. Professor Dennett waxes philosophical about the origins of life, sensory perception, and consciousness. KEYWORDS: consciousness, biology, perception, evolution, animal behavior, genetics, biology
This is a random lecture by John Searle from one of his courses on the philosophy of mind. He discusses the problem of perception and some of the traditional views adopted throughout the history of philosophy, all of which involve the rejection of direct realism, which Searle takes to be the fundamental mistake. Searle doesn't really give his own solution here, but just gives a general overview of the epistemological problem, including the various arguments from illusion/hallucination which drove people to reject naive realism in the first place, inevitably creating anxiety about external world skepticism. Searle then goes on to discuss the nature of intentionality and perceptual experience.
Shaun Gallagher argues that the extended mind hypothesis requires an enactive, neo-pragmatic concept of intentionality if it is to develop proper responses to a variety of objections. This enactive concept of intentionality is based on the phenomenological concept of a bodily (motor or operative) intentionality outlined by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. The connections between this concept and recent embodied approaches to social cognition are explored.
Robert Brandom gives a talk titled "Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation". Then Sebastian Rödl comments on it. This is the last of six lectures from the 2005-2006 John Locke lectures. The series is called "Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism". https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBHxLhKiPKxDqlMq8YG3eKFuxj2uW9K3a
Human sociality traits, in particular those that drive the way we build and maintain social relations, facilitate but also limit our ability to perform collective action. Without these traits we would not be able to maintain the group around us, the group that enables our biological and intellectual existence. At the same time, while human cultures show remarkable variation, the very traits that permit the rise of these cultures also limit the kind of societies that can emerge. These limitations not only narrow down the set of imaginable societies we can form, but also constrain our ability to perform collective action in large groups. This constraint raises a puzzle, since all known human societies achieve a feat not even remotely approached by other species: we live in very large and cul...
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