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Zusatztext This ambitious book offers both an introduction to the controversy over intentionality as well as a set of new proposals for approaching the issue. Informationen zum Autor William Lyons: William Lyons is a playwright who has spent much of his life as a student or teacher of philosophy in many countries. He is interested in 'theatre of thought' or drama that brings challenging ideas to the stage. His play Wittgenstein - The Crooked Roads won the START Chapbooks Award 2005 and was presented at Riverside Studios in London in 2011. Its companion piece, The Fir Tree and the Ivy, won the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award in 2006 and has been translated into Italian as L'Edera e l'Abete. Klappentext An authoritative and accessible account of a problem central to contemporary philosophy of mind. Writing in a clear! direct! and lively style! William Lyons first gives a critical survey of the current debate about the nature of intentionality! then moves on to offer an original new theory. Zusammenfassung Intentionality is a distinguishing feature of states of mind: that they are about things outside themselves. In this account of one of the central topics in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, Lyons introduces the topic with a critical survey of the debate and also puts forward an original new theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Etymology, Definition, Theory, and Problem of Intentionality PART I: MODERN APPROACHES 1: The Instrumentalist Approach 2: The Return to Representation 3: The Appeal to Teleology 4: The Information-Processing Approach 5: The Purest Functionalism PART II: A DIFFERENT APPROACH 6: A Brain's-Eye View of Intentionality 7: An Infant's-Eye View of Intentionality 8: An Adult's-Eye View of Intentionality Bibliography Index
