Languages of Intentionality : A Dialogue Between Two Traditions on Consciousness

Paul S. Macdonald

ISBN 10: 1441184120 / ISBN 13: 9781441184122

Verlag: Continnuum-3PL, 2012

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Intentionality - the relationship between conscious states and their objects - is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness. Long a foundational concept in Phenomenology, it has also received considerable coverage in the writings of analytic philosophers. This book is the first study to offer an impartial, well-informed assessment of the two traditions' approaches through an in-depth investigation of the principal thinkers' ideas, so that their positions emerge side-by-side, converging and diverging on certain shared themes.Beginning with a historical discussion of thedevelopment of the term in the work of Continental thinkers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the book considers the work of Brentano and Husserl and subsequent existentialist critiques. From there, it explores how empirical-analytic philosophers took up the topic, drawn as they were to materialist and computer models of the mind. Finally MacDonald presents a new 'hybrid' account of intentionality that will be a crucial work for scholars working on consciousness and the mind.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781441184122

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Languages of Intentionality : A Dialogue Between Two Traditions on Consciousness
• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1441184120
• ISBN-13: 9781441184122
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 240B x 161 H x 18 T Millimeter Breite: 240 mm, Höhe: 161 mm, Tiefe: 18 mm
• Gewicht: 529 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The first book to explore and bring together both Phenomenological and analytic-empirical approaches to a central issue in our understanding of consciousness.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul
S. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Murdoch University,
Australia. He is the author of Descartes
and Husserl (SUNY Press, 2000), History
of the Concept of Mind (Ashgate, vol.1, 2003; vol. 2, 2006), and the editor
of The Existentialist Reader
(Routledge, 2001).