Intentionality Deconstructed - An Anti-Realist Theory

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional content. Nothing can be about anything. The concept of intentionality is flawed, and so content ascriptions cannot be "absolutely" true or false - they lack truth conditions.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Introducing Intentionality


• 2: How to Settle Issues of Intentionality, and a Tentative Argument for Intentional Anti-Realism


• 3: Against Phenomenal Intentionality as Intrinsic Reductive Intentionality


• 4: Against Naturalistic Reductions of Intentionality


• 5: Intentional Anti-Realism I


• 6: Intentional anti-realism II: Objections and Further Developments


• References

About the author

Professor Amir Horowitz is the head of the philosophy program and the PPE program of the Open University of Israel. His main areas of research are philosophy of mind and cognitive science and philosophy of language. He also studies issues in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of sport.

Summary

Intentionality Deconstructed argues for the view that no concrete entity - mental, linguistic, or any other - can possess intentional content. Nothing can be about anything. The concept of intentionality is flawed, and so content ascriptions cannot be "absolutely" true or false - they lack truth conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Amir Horowitz, Amir (Head of the Philosophy Program and Horowitz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198896432
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889643-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology