Languages of intentionality : a dialogue between two traditions on consciousness / Paul S. MacDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacDonald, Paul S., 1951-

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy.

Continuum studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the writings ofanalytic philosophers. This book is the first study to offer an impartial,well-informed assessment of the two traditions approaches through an in-depthinvestigation of the principal thinkers ideas, so that their positions emergeside-by-side, converging and diverging on certain shared

Contents:

Current issues and debates on intentionality

Beginnings of the phenomenological theory

Existentialist critiques of Husserl's theory

Language: analytic accounts and the new empiricism

Computer models and functionalist explanations

Criticisms of the analytic-empirical approach

Extensions of the phenomenological theory

A hybrid project: the best of both approaches.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13339-X

9786613805973

1-4411-5179-6

OCLC:

799765922