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Languages of intentionality : a dialogue between two traditions on consciousness /

Intentionality therelationship between conscious states and their objects is one of the mostdiscussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitiveneuroscience and the study of consciousness. Long a foundational concept inPhenomenology, it has also received considerable coverage in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacDonald, Paul S., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Publishing Group, [2012]
Colección:Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Current issues and debates on intentionality
  • Chapter 2. Beginnings of the phenomenological theory: Twardowski's distinction of content and object; Edmund Husserl's phenomenological orientation
  • Chapter 3. Existentialist critiques of Husserl's theory: Heidegger's existential reorientation; Jean-Paul Sartre and the conduct of the for-itself; Merleau-Ponty on the lived-body and corporeal intentionality
  • Chapter 4. Language-analytic accounts and the new empiricism; Chisholm on intentional sentences; Wilfrid Sellars' new empiricism.
  • Chapter 5. Computer models and functionalist explanations: Daniel Dennett on intentional systems; Jerry Fodor on computation and representation; Fred Dretske on information and representation
  • Chapter 6. Criticisms of the analytic-empirical approach
  • Chapter 7. Extensions of the phenomenological theory
  • Chapter 8. A hybrid project--the best of both approaches.