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   Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought » Read Now

   by Robert C. Stalnaker. 283 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

   In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected essays: the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is...

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   In Context and Content Robert Stalnaker develops a philosophical picture of the nature of speech and thought and the relations between them. Two themes in particular run through these collected essays: the role that the context in which speech takes place plays in accounting for the way language is used to express thought, and the role of the external environment in determining the contents of our thoughts. Stalnaker argues against the widespread assumption of the priority of linguistic over mental representation, which he suggests has had a distorting influence on our understanding. The first part of the book develops a framework for representing contexts and the way they interact with the interpretation of what is said in them. This framework is used to help to explain a range of linguistic phenomena concerning presupposition and assertion, conditional statements, the attribution of beliefs, and the use of names, descriptions, and pronouns to refer. Stalnaker then draws out the conception of thought and its content that is implicit in this framework. He defends externalism about thought--the assumption that our thoughts have the contents they have in virtue of the way we are situated in the world--and explores the role of linguistic action and linguistic structure in determining the contents of our thoughts. Context and Content offers philosophers and cognitive scientists a summation of Stalnaker's important and influential work in this area. His new introduction to the volume gives an overview of this work and offers a convenient way in for those who are new to it. The Oxford Cognitive Science series is a new forum for the best contemporary work in this flourishing field, where various disciplines--cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and computational theory--join forces in the investigation of thought, awareness, understanding, and associated workings of the mind. Each book constitutes an original contribution to its subject, but will be accessible beyond the ranks of specialists, so as to reach a broad interdisciplinary readership. The series will be carefully shaped and steered with the aim of representing the most important developments in the field and bringing together its constituent disciplines.

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   Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (Chap. 2 "Intentionality: The Intentional Systems Approach" and Chap. 4 "How Intentionality Came into Focus") » Read Now

   by Daniel C. Dennett. 184 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...Incommunicative Minds 12 2 Intentionality: The Intentional Systems Approach...Original and Derived Intentionality 50 3 The Body...Has a Mind of Its Own!" 73 4 How...
   
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   Approaches to Intentionality » Read Now

   by William Lyons. 261 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

   Approaches to Intentionality is an authoritative and accessible account of a problem central to contemporary philosopy of mind. Lyons first gives a critical survey of the current debate about the nature of intentionality, then moves on to offer an original new theory. The book is written throughout in a clear, direct, and lively style.
   
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   Head and Heart: Affection, Cognition, Volition as Triune Consciousness (Includes multiple chapters about Intentionality) » Read Now

   by Andrew Tallon. 334 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

   This book proposes a theory of a triune consciousness formed by the heart and mind, composed of an equal partnership of reason, will, and affection. Professor Tallon sets out asking whether and how affective consciousness fits into this triad.
   
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   Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (Chap. 4 "Now the Mind Works: Intentionality" and "Collective Intentionality" begins on p. 118) » Read Now

   by John R. Searle. 180 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

   Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any...

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   Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract height to the terra firma of real-world understanding, so that those with no knowledge of philosophy can understand how these principles play out in our everyday lives. The author stresses that there is a real world out there to deal with, and condemns the belief that the reality of our world is dependent on our perception of it.

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   Theological Foundations: Intentionality and Psyche, Vol. 2 » Read Now

   by Robert M. Doran. 484 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...FOUNDATIONS VOLUME ONE INTENTIONALITY AND PSYCHE ROBERT M...1. The Notion of Philosophy and the Problem of Symbolism...falls on the affirmation of intentionality and psyche...
   
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   Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science (Chap. 3 "The Problem of Intentionality" and Chap. 4 "Philosophical Strategies for Explaining Intentionality") » Read Now

   by William Bechtel. 162 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...body. 3. Intentionality Philosophy 1. Tide...central to philosophy of mind, the...known as intentionality . 3 The Problem...The term intentionality is a technical...from...
   
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   Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience (Discussion of Intentionality begins on pgs. 106 and 233) » Read Now

   by Antti Revonsuo, Matti Kamppinen. 302 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...qualia , and intentionality . Perhaps...focus of the philosophy of mind...functionalistic philosophy to consciousness...came through intentionality, which was...survived in...
   
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   Beyond the Constitutive-Representational Dichotomy: The Phenomenological Notion of Intentionality, in Communication Theory » Read Now

   by Corey Anton. 32 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...phenomenological intentionality is at the...his entire philosophy. . . . What...performative intentionality. Philosophy and Rhetoric...Consciousness and intentionality in...