John, (01)
Further, intentionality is key to axiology and human reasoning about values. (02)
Mills (03)
On May 23, 2014, at 3:30 PM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (04)
> On 5/22/2014 9:40 AM, John Bottoms wrote:
>> I have come across some views that intentionality is difficult or
>> impossible to implement.
>
> It's difficult or impossible for those philosophers who try to
> eliminate anything that is "unscientific" or "anthropomorphic".
> Since intentionality, by definition, depends on somebody's intention,
> it is, by definition, anthropomorphic -- or at least zoomorphic.
>
> But without recognizing the importance of intentionality, it's
> impossible to define anything that depends on goals or purpose.
> That includes business, law, government, economics, and life.
>
>> There appear to be a number of candidate reasons including lack of
>> consensus, issues with dualism, ambiguity of language or implementation
>> using FOL.
>
> The lack of consensus is the result of the half century of behaviorism
> in the early part of the 20th c. In the late 19th c, there were many
> enlightened philosophers such as Peirce, Brentano, and their followers
> who understood the issues. Husserl was a student of Brentano's, and
> he did his best to reconcile intentionality with the onslaught of
> behaviorism.
>
> Some of Husserl's students, such as Heidegger, went off the deep end
> with those methods. The net result is that most analytic philosophers
> were scared of mentioning anything that might trigger a criticism that
> they were being "unscientific". Fortunately, scientists like Einstein
> had no fear of being unscientific. Einstein criticized philosophers
> like Ernst Mach and Bertrand Russell for their "Angst" about such
> issues.
>
> More recently, philosophers like John Searle have been getting back to
> intentionality. But many are still too timid about being criticized
> by the so-called "mainstream" of analytic philosophy (i.e, the people
> who control tenure and promotion). For some discussion and references,
> see http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/rolelog.pdf
>
> I discuss some issues about Searle, Carnap, and others in
> http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/worlds.pdf
>
> John
>
>
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