IS PERCEPTION AN INTENTIONAL STATE? Cover Image

PERCEPTION : UN ETAT INTENTIONNEL?
IS PERCEPTION AN INTENTIONAL STATE?

Author(s): Roberta Locatelli
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: agriculture; cooperation; peasant state; peasant (agrarian) ideology; reform.

Summary/Abstract: It is close to current orthodoxy in analytic philosophy that perception is an intentional state. In this paper I will provide some evidence to doubt the alleged triviality of this claim. In fact, intentionality is a semantical notion and perception has, at least in a basic sense, no semantic nature. I will individuate some general features of intentionality and I will show that they cannot be consistently applied to percepton. As a conclusion, I will roughly sketch an alternative non-intentional view of perception.  

  • Issue Year: 55/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 195-218
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: French