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Necessary Intentionality - A Study in the Metaphysics of Aboutness (Hardcover, New)
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Necessary Intentionality - A Study in the Metaphysics of Aboutness (Hardcover, New)
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Some things in the world-intentional items such as words, thoughts,
portraits, and passport photos-are about things, whereas other
things in the world-sticks, stones, and fireflies-are not about
anything. Necessary Intentionality is a study of aboutness, or
intentionality, with a focus on the following question: are
intentional items typically about whatever they are about as a
matter of necessity, or is their aboutness, rather, a matter of
mere contingency? Consider, for example, a particular name
referring to a particular person, or a specific belief with respect
to some particular thing that it is such and so. Is it possible for
the name not to have referred to the person and for the belief not
to have been about the thing? Ori Simchen defends a negative answer
to such questions. That the name refers to the person is necessary
for the name and that the belief is about the thing is necessary
for the belief. Simchen articulates his overall position in two
main stages. In the first stage he fleshes out a requisite modal
metaphysical background. In the second stage he brings the modal
metaphysics to bear on cognition, specifically the aboutness of
cognitive states and episodes. Simchen presents a productivist
approach, which takes aboutness to be determined by the conditions
of production of intentional items, rather than an
interpretationist approach that takes aboutness to be determined by
conditions of consumption of such items.
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