I don't know that we can address "intentionality" in any detail (see:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/ for a brief, accessible
discussion). There is just too much. (01)
For John Bottoms' questions about "intentionality best practices", I guess we
must ask him what he has in mind, i.e., to provide more detail about his own
intent. (02)
Thanks,
Leo (03)
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>John,
>
>Further, intentionality is key to axiology and human reasoning about values.
>
>Mills
>
>On May 23, 2014, at 3:30 PM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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