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| Intentionality: intentionality is the ability of people and higher animals to relate to and react to circumstances such as things and states. Concepts, words, and sentences also refer to something but have no intentionality. This linguistic relating-to is called reference instead._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Joelle Proust on Intentionality - Dictionary of Arguments
I 233 Animal/Mind/Intentionality/Premack/Woodruff/Proust: Premack/Woodruff's famous studies of "Theory of the Mind" in animals, "beliefs and desires", etc. Theory of the Mind, >Premack, >Woodruff, >Beliefs, >Thinking, >Thinking without language, >Desires. Proust: if one speaks of a theory of the mind, one should distinguish it from a social one not from a psychological competence in the strict sense by which social animals try to influence each other. Premack: an animal can deliberately act on what another is doing (social) or thinks (then also psychologically). >Intentions. "Spoilsport version": the explanation of behavior: not intention but only established correlation is intended to explain the behavior of an animal. I 234 Then the psychological side can be dispensed with. Speechless animals simply establish a correlation. Cf. >Animals, >Animal language, >Thinking/animal. DennettVs: intentional attitude for explanation. >Correlation, >Animals/Dennett, >Intentional stance. I 234 Intentionality/Dennett: Levels: 1. Desires and beliefs can be attributed. 2. Beliefs and desires about beliefs and desires 3. Beliefs and desires about beliefs and desires of the second level, etc. >Levels/order, >Description levels. I 235 ProustVsDennett: opens the door for the human to apply his psychological concepts to apparently concept-less processes: cars, dogs, cats. It is slightly different with primates. >Concepts, >Language and thinking, >Thinking without language._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Proust I Joelle Proust "L’animal intentionnel", in: Terrain 34, Les animaux, pensent-ils?, Paris: Ministère de la Culture/Editions de la maison des Sciences de l’Homme 2000, pp. 23-36 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 |
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