Intentionality in Medieval Augustinianism

Intentionality in Education

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...

Instrumental Intentionality

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Intentionality in Robots

It is proposed that the capacity of attention is a minimal criterion of intentionality in robots. An attentive system must be able to identify relevant objects in the scene; select one of the identified objects; direct its sensors towards the selected object; and maintain its focus on the selected object. We describe the robot R1 which exhibits behavior that seems intentional. However, when the...

Shared intentionality.

We argue for the importance of processes of shared intentionality in children's early cognitive development. We look briefly at four important social-cognitive skills and how they are transformed by shared intentionality. In each case, we look first at a kind of individualistic version of the skill -- as exemplified most clearly in the behavior of chimpanzees -- and then at a version based on s...