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Single Idea 4095

[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality ]

Full Idea

Love, hate, and the other object-directed attitudes have as much of a role in explaining behaviour as the propositional attitudes.

Clarification

Propositional attitudes are attitudes to proposiions, like believing or hoping it is raining

Gist of Idea

Object-directed attitudes like love are just as significant as propositional attitudes

Source

Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 4.34)

Book Ref

Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.114

A Reaction

A good clarification of the range of intentional states. Objects seem to be external, where propositions are clearly internal.

The 17 ideas with the same theme [what exactly is intentionality?]:

3364 All mental phenomena contain an object [Brentano]
7107 Intentionality defines, transcends and unites consciousness [Sartre]
3465 Either there is intrinsic intentionality, or everything has it [Searle]
3484 Water flowing downhill can be described as if it had intentionality [Searle]
3489 Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background [Searle]
3367 Both thought and language have intentionality [Kim]
2485 Do intentional states explain our behaviour? [Fodor]
15473 How does anything get outside itself? [Fodor, by Martin,CB]
4993 If a bird captures a worm, we could say its behaviour is 'about' the worm [Kirk,R]
11935 Physical powers like solubility and charge also have directedness [Molnar]
6543 Intentionality comes in degrees [Lycan]
6481 If intentional states are intrinsically about other things, what are their own properties? [Robinson,H]
4087 Intentionalism does not require that all mental states be propositional attitudes [Crane]
4095 Object-directed attitudes like love are just as significant as propositional attitudes [Crane]
4623 Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery [Heil]
4929 Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input [Edelman/Tononi]
15018 Intentionality is too superficial to appear in the catalogue of ultimate physics [Sider]