Intentionality and Continuity of Experience

Introspection , intentionality and the transparency of experience

1. Introspection and phenomenal character How much can introspection tell us about the nature of perceptual experience? This partly depends on what we understand by ‘the nature of perceptual experience’. It is hardly to be expected that introspection could tell us, for example, whether our experiences are brain states, or supervene on brain states; this is something which must be decided on the...

The Intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and A Contemporary Debate

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

An Experience-Based BDI Logic: Motivating Shared Experiences and Intentionality

This paper proposes the notion of experience to help situate agents in their environment, providing a link on how the continually evolving environment impacts the evolution of an agent's BDI model and vice versa. Then, using the notion of shared experience as a primitive construct, we develop a novel formal model of shared intention which we believe more adequately describes social behaviour th...

Continuity care in surgery: our experience

Background For many years some demographic changes have been taking place that means also a constant growth of the elderly population. These changes cause an increase of “frail” patients, affected by chronic and degenerative diseases, often associated and affected by functional limitations and/or disabilities [1]. That has lead to an increasing demand for long term social and medical services w...