- "Intentionality is the power of minds to be about something."
The relationship between consciousness and the external world.
Consciousness: Refers to the mental state of being aware of something or someone, and the ability to perceive and experience the object or person.
Perception: Refers to the process of interpreting and organizing sensory information to create meaning in the mind.
Experience: Refers to the subjective and personal phenomena that one goes through when interacting with the world.
Meaning: Refers to the significance or value that an object or experience holds for an individual.
Intention: Refers to the purposeful mental activity that an individual engages in when directing their attention and actions towards a particular object, person, or situation.
Attention: Refers to the cognitive process of selectively focusing on some aspects of the environment while ignoring others.
Object: Refers to the entity or thing that is the focus of the intentional act.
Essence: Refers to the essential or fundamental nature of an object or experience.
Husserl's phenomenology: Refers to the philosophical approach developed by Edmund Husserl, which emphasizes the examination of subjective experience as a way to gain insight into the nature of reality.
Heidegger's phenomenology: Refers to the philosophical approach developed by Martin Heidegger, which emphasizes the ontological, or existential aspects of human experience and their relationship to the world.
Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology: Refers to the philosophical approach developed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which focuses on the embodied and interactive nature of human experience and its relationship to the world.
Intentional objects: Refers to the objects that are the target of intentional acts, including both physical and mental objects.
Intentional content: Refers to the mental content of an intentional act, including the thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that are associated with it.
Noema and noesis: Refers to the distinction made by Husserl between the "object" of the intentional act (noema) and the act of consciousness (noesis) that directs attention towards it.
Intentional arc: Refers to the interactive and reciprocal relationship between the individual and the environment, where intentional acts are directed towards objects in the world, and the environment shapes and influences the individual's experience.
Perceptual Intentionality: Refers to how we direct our attention towards objects or events in the world through our sensory experiences.
Imaginative Intentionality: Pertains to how we can imagine or simulate mental images or scenarios in our mind without them necessarily being present in the world.
Emotional Intentionality: Relates to how our emotions or moods can give rise to certain experiences and perceptions of the world.
Practical Intentionality: Describes how our goals, intentions, and plans for action shape and direct our perceptions and experiences.
Linguistic Intentionality: Describes how we use language to communicate our thoughts, feelings, and intentions with others, and how language can also shape our perceptions and experiences.
Cognitive Intentionality: Relates to how our thinking and reasoning processes structure and shape our perceptions and experiences of the world.
Social Intentionality: Pertains to our interpersonal experiences and how our social interactions and relationships shape our perceptions and experiences of ourselves and others.
Existential Intentionality: Refers to our subjective experiences of existence, meaning, and purpose in the world.
- "Intentionality is primarily ascribed to mental states, like perceptions, beliefs or desires."
- "Intentionality is primarily ascribed to mental states, which is why it has been regarded as the characteristic mark of the mental."
- "A central issue for theories of intentionality has been the problem of intentional inexistence: to determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional states."
- "An early theory of intentionality is associated with Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument for the existence of God."
- "...with his tenets distinguishing between objects that exist in the understanding and objects that exist in reality."
- "The idea fell out of discussion with the end of the medieval scholastic period."
- "In recent times, it was resurrected by empirical psychologist Franz Brentano."
- "...adopted by contemporary phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl."
- "Today, intentionality is a live concern among philosophers of mind and language."
- "A common dispute is between naturalism and the phenomenal intentionality theory."
- "Naturalism, the view that intentional properties are reducible to natural properties as studied by the natural sciences."
- "The phenomenal intentionality theory, the view that intentionality is grounded in consciousness."
- "Intentionality is the power of minds to be about something: to represent or to stand for things, properties and states of affairs."
- "To determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional states."
- "Intentionality is primarily ascribed to mental states, like perceptions, beliefs or desires."
- "Intentionality is associated with Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument for the existence of God."
- "The phenomenal intentionality theory, the view that intentionality is grounded in consciousness."
- "It has been regarded as the characteristic mark of the mental by many philosophers."
- "The problem of intentional inexistence: to determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional states."