How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in
everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such
"folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation,
asserts Daniel Dennett in this first full-scale presentation of a
theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost
twenty years. We adopt a stance, he argues, a predictive strategy
of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people -
or other entities - we are hoping to understand and predict.These
principles of radical interpretation have far-reaching implications
for the metaphysical and scientific status of the processes
referred to by the everday terms of folk psychology and their
corresponding terms in cognitive science.While Dennett's
philosophical stance has been steadfast over the years, his views
have undergone successive enrichments, refinements, and extensions.
The Intentional Stance brings together both previously published
and original material: four of the book's ten chapters - its first
and the final three - appear here for the first time and push the
theory into surprising new territory. The remaining six were
published earlier in the 1980s but were not easily accessible; each
is followed by a reflection - an essay reconsidering and extending
the claims of the earlier work. These reflections and the new
chapters represent the vanguard of Dennett's thought. They reveal
fresh lines of inquiry into fundamental issues in psychology,
artificial intelligence, and evolutionary theory as well as
traditional issues in the philosophy of mind.Daniel C. Dennett is
Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at Tufts University and
the author of Brainstorms and Elbow Room. The Intentional Stance,
along with these works, is a Bradford Book.
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