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Single Idea 4623
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
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Full Idea
Some philosophers have thought that intentional states are exhausted by propositional attitudes, but what about mental imagery? You may have propositional attitudes to food, but I would wager that most of your thoughts about it are imagistic.
Gist of Idea
Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery
Source
John Heil (Philosophy of Mind [1998], Ch.6)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Routledge 1998], p.212
A Reaction
Seems right. If I encounter an object by which I am bewildered, I may form no propositions at all about it, but I can still contemplate the object.
The
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[what exactly is intentionality?]:
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3364
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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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3367
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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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15473
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How does anything get outside itself?
[Fodor, by Martin,CB]
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4993
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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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11935
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Physical powers like solubility and charge also have directedness
[Molnar]
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6543
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Intentionality comes in degrees
[Lycan]
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6481
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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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4623
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Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery
[Heil]
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4929
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Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input
[Edelman/Tononi]
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15018
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Intentionality is too superficial to appear in the catalogue of ultimate physics
[Sider]
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