Intentionality by John Rogers Searle
An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
An investigation into the nature of "aboutness" that defines mental phenomena, arguing that intentionality—the capacity of beliefs, desires, perceptions, and other mental states to be about or directed toward objects and states of affairs—is a fundamental, irreducible feature of minds. It distinguishes intrinsic intentionality, possessed by mental states, from the derived intentionality of linguistic signs and artifacts, critiques reductionist accounts (behaviorist, purely functionalist, and simplistic computational explanations) that try to eliminate or explain away intentionality, and develops an account that treats intentionality as a natural, biologically grounded phenomenon while accounting for its normative and semantic dimensions.
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- 1983
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- American
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- English
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