Original scientific paper

Real Intentionality 2. Why Intentionality Entails Consciousness?

Galen Strawson

Abstract

Intentionality is an essentially mental, essentially occurrent, and essentially experiential (conscious) phenomenon. Any attempt to characterize intentionality that detaches it from conscious experience faces two insuperable problems. First, it is obliged to concede that almost everything (if not everything) has intentionality—all the way down to subatomic particles. Second, it has the consequence that everything that has intentionality has far too much of it—perhaps an infinite amount. The key to a satisfactory and truly naturalistic theory of intentionality is (1) a realistic conception of naturalism and (2) a properly developed understanding of the phenomenon of cognitive experience.

Keywords

Intentionality; consciousness; physicalism; naturalism; cognitive experience

Hrčak ID:

5889

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/5889

Publication date:

7.7.2006.

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