Approaches to Intentionality
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 4 December 1997
- ISBN 9780198752226
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 216x138x16 mm
- Weight 358 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Approaches to Intentionality is an authoritative and accessible account of a central topic in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Intentionality is a distinguishing feature of states of mind: that they are about things outside themselves. Part I introduces the topic with a critical survey of the debate, while Part II puts forward an original new theory. The book is written throughout in a clear, direct, and lively style.
MoreLong description:
What is intentionality? Intentionality is a distinguishing characteristic of states of mind (such as beliefs, thoughts, wishes, dreams, and desires): that they are about things outside themselves.
About this book: William Lyons explores various ways in which philosophers have tried to explain intentionality, and then suggests a new way. Part I of the book gives a critical account of the five most comprehensive and prominent current approaches to intentionality. These approaches can be summarised as the instrumentalist approach, derived from Carnap and Quine and culminating in the work of Daniel Dennett; the linguistic approach, derived from the work of Chomsky and exhibited most fully in the work of Jerry Fodor; the biological approach, developed by Ruth Garrett Millikan, Colin McGinn, and others; the information-processing approach which has been given a definitive form in the work of Fred Dretske; and the functional role approach of Brian Loar.
In Part II, Professor Lyons sets out a multi-level, developmental approach to intentionality. Drawing upon work in neurophysiology and psychology, the author argues that intentionality is to be found, in different forms, at the levels of brain functioning, prelinguistic consciousness, language, and at the holistic level of `whole person performance' which is demarcated by our ordinary everyday talk about beliefs, desires, hopes, intentions, and the other `propositional attitudes'.
Written in a direct, clear, and lively style, the extended survey of contemporary debate in Part I will be invaluable to the student of philosophy of mind or cognitive science as well as to the scholars and graduate students who will find an original new theory to contend with in Part II.
an informative book
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Etymology, Definition, Theory, and Problem of Intentionality
PART I: MODERN APPROACHES
The Instrumentalist Approach
The Return to Representation
The Appeal to Teleology
The Information-Processing Approach
The Purest Functionalism
PART II: A DIFFERENT APPROACH
A Brain's-Eye View of Intentionality
An Infant's-Eye View of Intentionality
An Adult's-Eye View of Intentionality
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