Talk:Intentionality

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My psych professor claims that intentionality means different things depending on whether or not it is capitalized. I think he said "intentionality" meant aboutness, while "Intentionality" meant consciousness -- though it might be the other way around. Anyone else heard of this? Maybe this is particular to one or two authors. --Ryguasu

There seems to be a conflict in how the term is used by Americans and by continental philosophers. Georg Henrik von Wright, according to Vincent Descombes, makes a distinction between "intentionalist" and "causalist" philosophies of action, which would make intentionality a philosophy. Searle's intentionality is more of condition or trait of something. Shoehorn 09:15, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] v. Intension

Uhh, I'm pretty sure these pages are a bit mixed up. What is described as Intension here should be on the Intention page. As in Intentionality. At least that is my understanding from reading.. (Page 58 onwards) "Why Humans Have Cultures" by Michael Carrithers, 1992, Opus / Oxford Uni. Press.

-- FeFiFoFum 22:43 Jan 8, 2004 (GMT)

I don't think so. If you want to argue the point, can you be more specific? Banno 23:18, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

I was really suprised Daniel Dennett wasn't added to the list, as he wrote on Intentionality quite extensively

There are three different things, which need three different articles:

- Intentionality as a feature of acts, i.e. voluntary as opposed to involuntary actions.

- Intentionality as a distinctive feature of conscious mental processes (Brentano, Husserl, etc.).

- Intensionality (with an "s") and extensionality as logical properties of expressions (this should include intensional logic).

Some have argued that there is a relationship between the first kind of intentionality and intensional statements, but this is controversial. It should be referred to in each of those articles. KD

No. Intension as defined here is properly referred to. Some logicians and philosophers have argued that intensionality and intentionality are the same, or that intensionality (connotation in definition) is a criteria for intentionality. I find your statement "What is described as Intension here should be on the Intention page. As in Intentionality" as a bit confusing. Amerindianarts 05:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's confusing, but note it was posted by someone else. As for your "No" - I am not sure what you are disagreeing with. This article states: "intentionality (-tion-) is not to be confused with intensionality (-sion-), a concept from semantics." I too think something needs to be said about the claimed link between intenSionality and intenTionality, but that they both need to be kept quite separate from the first sense of intentionality I mentioned - voluntary acts. KD Dec 7