Abstract In this short comment, I will first recapitulate some of the substantive claims Textor attributes to Brentano, and then propose use Kant’s epistemology extend central argumentative conclusion Textor’s article, namely assertion that “where there is something mental, awareness marks”.

Theories of collective intentionality and theories relational autonomy share a common interest in analyzing the social dynamics agency. However, whereas conceive groups primarily as intentional voluntarily willed, claim that autonomous agency is both scaffolded constrained by forces structures, including constraints imposed nonvoluntary group membership. The question raised this difference view...

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It is well known that Franz Brentano was the first to suggest intentionality, property of being about something, as a criterion for demarcating domain mental. He suggested intentionality necessary and sufficient condition something qualify mental event. important, purposes this paper, pay attention fact Brentano’s theory came from within broader philosophical outlook thoroughly dualistic. sough...

Franz Brentano is well known for highlighting the importance of intentionality, but he said curiously little about nature intentionality. According to Mark Textor, there a deep reason this: took intentionality be conceptual primitive which revealed only in direct grasp. Although certainly textual support this interpretation, it appears tension with Brentano's repeated attempts analyze terms ‘no...

Intentionality: A Study of Mind, Meaning, and Language (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1982), where our interpretation is developed in greater detail. Ronald McIntyre and David Woodruff Smith, “Theory of Intentionality,” in J. N. Mohanty and William R. McKenna, eds., Husserl’s Phenomenology: A Textbook (Washington, D. C.: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of A...