Intentionality An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind

Name: Intentionality An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
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ISBN: 9780521273022

ISBN-10: 0521273021

ISBN-13: 9780521273022

Edition: 1983

Authors: John R. Searle

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John Searle's Speech Acts (1969) and Expression and Meaning (1979) developed a highly original and influential approach to the study of language. But behind both works lay the assumption that the philosophy of language is in the end a branch of the philosophy of the mind: speech acts are forms of human action and represent just one example of the mind's capacity to relate the human organism to the world. The present book is concerned with these biologically fundamental capacities, and, though third in the sequence, in effect it provides the philosophical foundations for the other two. Intentionality is taken to be the crucial mental phenomenon, and its analysis involves wide-ranging…

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List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/31/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The nature of intentional states



The intentionality of perception



Intention and action



Intentional causation



The background



Meaning



Intensional reports of intentional states and speech acts



Are meanings in the head?



Proper names and intentionality



Epilogue: intentionality and the brain


Subject index


Name index