Intentionality If I think about a piano, something in my thought picks out a piano. If I talk about cigars, something in my speech refers to cigars. This feature of thoughts and words, whereby they pick out, refer to, or are about things, is intentionality. In a word, intentionality is aboutness. Many mental states exhibit intentionality. If I believe that the weather is rainy today,

Cynosarges Una palestra vicino ad Atene e il luogo in cui insegnavano i filosofi cinici. Sommario Posizione, Strutture, e disposizione del ponte Cynosarges Heracleion Altri santuari Palestra Palaistra Boschetti Peripatos Storia dell'uso di Cynosarges Riferimenti e approfondimenti 1. Ubicazione, Strutture, e Layout di Cynosarges Cynosarges era situato lungo la riva meridionale del fiume Ilissos, non lontano dalle antiche mura della città (Diogene Laerzio

Collective Intentionality The idea that a collective could be bearer of intentional states such as belief and intention is likely to raise some eyebrows, especially in certain Anglo-American and European philosophical circles. The dominant picture in these circles is that intentionality is a feature of individual minds/brains. On the face of it, groups don’t have minds or brains. How could they have intentional states? Despite

Jerry A. Fodor (1935—2017) Jerry Fodor was one of the most important philosophers of mind of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In addition to exerting an enormous influence on virtually all parts of the literature in the philosophy of mind since 1960, Fodor’s work had a significant impact on the development of the cognitive sciences. Negli anni '60, along with Hilary Putnam, Noam

Metaphysics of Science Metaphysics of Science is the philosophical study of key concepts that figure prominently in science and that, prima facie, stand in need of clarification. It is also concerned with the phenomena that correspond to these concepts. Exemplary topics within Metaphysics of Science include laws of nature, causation, disposizioni, natural kinds, possibility and necessity, explanation, reduction, emergence, grounding, and space and time. Metafisica