Phenomenal Intentionality (Philosophy of Mind) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199764298 ISBN 13: 9780199764297

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Since the late 1970's, the main research program for understanding intentionality -- the mind's ability to direct itself onto the world -- has been based on the attempt naturalize intentionality, in the sense of making it intelligible how intentionality can occur in a perfectly natural, indeed entirely physical, world. Some philosophers, however, have remained skeptical of this entire approach. In particular, some have argued that phenomenal consciousness - - the subjective feel of conscious experience -- has an essential role to play in the theory of intentionality, a role missing in the naturalization program. Thus a number of authors have recently brought to the fore the notion of phenomenal intentionality, as well as a cluster of nearby notions. There is a vague sense that their work is interrelated, complementary, and mutually reinforcing, in a way that suggests a germinal research program.
With twelve new essays by philosophers at the forefront of the field, this volume is designed to launch this research program in a more self-conscious way, by exploring some of the fundamental claims and themes of relevance to this program.

About this title

About the Author:

Uriah Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris, working mainly in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. His books include Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory (Oxford, 2009) and The Sources of Intentionality (Oxford, 2011).

Review:

"An interesting collection, and each of the chapters has something to offer. The book also illustrates how the phenomenological tradition is alive and well in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind."--Alex Byrne, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199764298
• ISBN 13: 9780199764297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Kriegel Uriah