On Ur-intentionality

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v9i2.42920

Keywords:

Ur-intentionality. Radical enactivism. Teleosemantics. Basic cognition. Content ascriptivism.

Abstract

Starting from Brentano’s classical characterization of intentionality, we review the radical enactivist proposal about basic cognition and show that the underlying assumption that stripping teleosemantics of its representationalist commitments results in no explanatory loss is unwarranted. Significant features of basic cognition are lost, or so we argue, with the RECtification of teleosemantics that are retrieved by means of an alternative dubbed metaphysically non-committal content-ascriptivism.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ludovic Soutif, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio

Atualmente é Professor Associado do PPG em Filosofia da PUC-Rio e Presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Filosofia Analítica (gestão 2021-2023). Possui Agrégation em Filosofia pela Universidade de Paris Ouest-Nanterre (1994), Mestrado (1997) e Doutorado (2005) em Filosofia pela Universidade Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. Foi Visiting Fellow com bolsas Fulbright e Arthur Sachs em Harvard University (2000-2001), pensionnaire com bolsa Lavoisier da Maison Française dOxford (2001-2002) e Visiting Researcher nos Wittgenstein Archives of the University of Bergen (2002, 2003, 2004) com bolsa ARI da União Europeia. Fez pós-doutorado com bolsa FAPESP na Universidade de São Paulo (2008-2010). Foi pesquisador associado ao Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE) da UNICAMP, com bolsa PDS do CNPq (2021-2022).

Carlos Márquez, Universidade de São Paulo, USP

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Nacional de Colombia (2016), graduado em Filosofia (2004) e Mestre em Filosofia (2007) da Universidade Nacional de Colombia. Pós-doutorado Junior na Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2016-2017) com apoio do CNPq proc. 152155/2016-3 e Pesquisador de pós-doutorado na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo FFLCH-USP (2018-2021) com bolsa da FAPESP proc. 2018/04058-7. Tem experiência nas áreas de Lógica, Filosofia de Linguagem e Filosofia da Mente. Atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: teorias do significado e do conteúdo cognitivo, epistemológia analítica, referencia singular, intencionalidade, cognição situada e dinámica, representação e percepção de objetos, e representação espacial.

References

BASTAKOV, V. A. “Visual illusions in Frogs and Toads”. Perception, v. 26, n. 1, suppl, pp. 80-80, 1997.

____. “Size Constancy Mechanism and Spatial Illusions in an Anuran”. Perception, v. 37, n. 1, suppl, pp. 158-158, 2008.

BRENTANO, Franz. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874). Edited by Linda L. McAlister. Translated by Antos C. Rancurello et al. New York, London: Routledge, 1995.

COLOMBO, M. “Neural Representationalism, the Hard Problem of Content and Vitiated Verdicts. A Reply to Hutto Myin (2013).” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, v. 13, n. 2, pp. 257-274, 2014.

CRANE, T. “Brentano’s Concept of Intentional Inexistence.” In: TEXTOR, M. (Ed.) The Austrian Contribution to Analytic Philosophy, London, New York: Routledge, 2006 (pp. 20-35).

____. “Intentionalism.” In: BECKERMANN, A.; McLAUGHLIN, B.; WALTER, S. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 (pp. 474-493).

EVANS, G. The Varieties of Reference. Edited by J. H. McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

FODOR, J. A Theory of Content and Other Essays. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990.

____. “Deconstructing Dennett’s Darwin.” Mind and Language, v. 11, n. 3, pp. 246-262, 1996.

GALLISTEL, C. R. “Symbolic Processes in the Brain: The Case of Insect Navigation”. In: SCARBOROUGH, D.; STERNBERG, S. (Eds.) An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 4: Methods, Models, and Conceptual Issues, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998.

GOZZANO, S. “The Beliefs of Mute Animals.” In: MARRAFFA, M.; DE CARO, M.; FERRETTI, F. (Eds.) Cartographies of the Mind, Dordrecht: Springer, 2007 (pp. 271-282).

GRICE, P. Studies in the Way of Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

HAUGELAND, J. “The Intentionality All-Stars.” Philosophical Perspectives, v. 4, pp. 383-427, 1990.

HUTTO, D. D. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.

____. “Philosophy of Mind’s New Lease on Life: Autopoietic Enactivism meets Teleosemiotics.” Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 18, n. 5-6, pp. 44-64, 2011.

HUTTO, D. D.; MYIN, E. Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013.

____. Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.

____. “Much Ado About Nothing? Why Going Non-Semantic is not Merely Semantics.” Philosophical Explorations, v. 21, n. 2, pp. 187-203, 2018.

HUTTO, D. D.; SATNE, G. “Introduction: Searching for the Natural Origins of Content.” Philosophia, v. 43, n. 3, pp. 505-519, 2015.

McCLOSKEY, M. Visual Reflections: A Perceptual Deficit and Its Implications, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

MIKLOSI, A. Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

MILLIKAN, R. “Speaking Up for Darwin.” In: LOEWER, B.; REY, G. (Eds.) Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991 (pp. 151–164).

MULLER, H. D. “Naturalism and Intentionality”. In: BASHOUR, B.; MULLER, H. D. (Eds.) Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, London: Routledge, 2014.

NEANDER, K. “Misrepresenting Malfunctioning.” Philosophical Studies, v. 79, n. 2, pp. 109-141, 1995.

____. A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.

PIETROSKI, P. “Intentionality and Teleological Error.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, v. 73, n. 3, pp. 267-282, 1992.

ROY, J.-M. “Anti-Cartesianism and Anti-Brentanism: The Problem of Anti-Representationalist Intentionalism.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, v. 53, Spindel Supplement, pp. 90–125, 2015.

SCHULTE, P. “How Frogs See the World: Putting Millikan’s Teleosemantics to the Test.” Philosophia, v. 40, n. 3, pp. 483-496, 2012.

SIEWERT, C. “Consciousness and Intentionality.” In: ZALTA, E. N. (Ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition), URL=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/consciousness-intentionality/

SMITH, B. Austrian Philosophy. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1994.

SIMONS, P. “Mind and Opacity.” Dialectica, v. 49, n. 2-4, pp. 131-146, 1995.

THOMPSON, E. “Review of Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Mying, Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 11, 2018.

TWARDOWSKI, K. On the Content and Object of Presentations: A Psychological Investigation (1894). Translated by Richard Grossmann. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.

Downloads

Published

2021-08-31

How to Cite

SOUTIF, Ludovic; MÁRQUEZ, Carlos. On Ur-intentionality. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 2, p. 79–99, 2021. DOI: 10.26512/rfmc.v9i2.42920. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/42920. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021): Dossiê "Franz Brentano"

Section

Dossier

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Journal of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.