Single Idea 2323

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions]

Full Idea

It has been customary to distinguish between two broad categories of mental phenomena, the intentional and the phenomenal, without excluding those that have both (e.g. emotions).

Clarification

'Intentional' phenomena have content or meaning, or are about something; mental 'phenomena' are experiences

Gist of Idea

Emotions have both intentionality and qualia

Source

Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §4 p.101)

Book Reference

Kim,Jaegwon: 'Mind in the Physical World' [MIT 2000], p.101


A Reaction

This has become the conventional modern account of the mind. It seems a little too simple to say that the mind is characterised by two clearcut phenomena like this. I suspect that his picture will be modified in time.