How Many Concepts of Intentionality?

• Main Author: Dąbrowski Andrzej
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2015-07-01
• Series: Studia Humana
• Subjects: intentionality; mentalistic intentionality; linguistic intentionality; pragmatic intentionality; somatic intentionality; naturalistic intentionality
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2015-0016

The current discussion of the intentionality nature has become more sophisticated and complex. In this paper I will delineate a number of approaches to intentionality in contemporary philosophy: 1 mentalistic; 2 semantic / linguistic; 3 pragmatic; 4 somatic; 5 and naturalistic. Although philosophers identify and analyse many concepts of intentionality, from the author point of view, there is only one intentionality: mentalistic intentionality (conscious mental states are intentional). Furthermore, there are the pre-intentionality in the physical world and the meta-intentionality (or the derived intentionality) in the world of culture.