Single Idea 7010

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories]

Full Idea

Dispositionality provides the grounding for intentionality.

Clarification

'Dispositionality' is the view that dispositions are essential to matter

Gist of Idea

Dispositionality provides the grounding for intentionality

Source

John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Intro)

Book Reference

Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.14


A Reaction

This is a view with which I am sympathetic, though I am not sure if it explains anything. It would be necessary to identify a disposition of basic matter that could be built up into the disposition of a brain to think about things.