Intentionality and Dualism: Does the Idea that Intentionality Is the MOM Necessarily Entail Dualism?
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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. sought total separation physical, his appeal defining in service producing such separation. In view, only events have it virtue feature they differ physical world. The aim paper explore whether committed dualism which originated.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Phenomenology and Mind
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2280-7853', '2239-4028']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17454/pam-2206