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Single Idea 15473
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
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Full Idea
Fodor asks the stirring and basic question 'How does anything get outside itself?'
Gist of Idea
How does anything get outside itself?
Source
report of Jerry A. Fodor (works [1986]) by C.B. Martin - The Mind in Nature 03.6
Book Ref
Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.33
A Reaction
Is this one of those misconceived questions, like major issues concerning 'what's it like to be?' In what sense am I outside myself? Is a mind any more mysterious than a shadow?
The
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[what exactly is intentionality?]:
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All mental phenomena contain an object
[Brentano]
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7107
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Intentionality defines, transcends and unites consciousness
[Sartre]
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3465
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Either there is intrinsic intentionality, or everything has it
[Searle]
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3484
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Water flowing downhill can be described as if it had intentionality
[Searle]
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3489
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Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background
[Searle]
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Both thought and language have intentionality
[Kim]
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2485
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Do intentional states explain our behaviour?
[Fodor]
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How does anything get outside itself?
[Fodor, by Martin,CB]
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If a bird captures a worm, we could say its behaviour is 'about' the worm
[Kirk,R]
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Physical powers like solubility and charge also have directedness
[Molnar]
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Intentionality comes in degrees
[Lycan]
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If intentional states are intrinsically about other things, what are their own properties?
[Robinson,H]
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4087
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Intentionalism does not require that all mental states be propositional attitudes
[Crane]
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4095
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Object-directed attitudes like love are just as significant as propositional attitudes
[Crane]
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Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery
[Heil]
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Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input
[Edelman/Tononi]
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Intentionality is too superficial to appear in the catalogue of ultimate physics
[Sider]
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