One of the most enduring elements of Davidson’s legacy is the idea that intentionality is inherently normative. The normativity of intentionality means different things to different people and in different contexts, however. A subsidiary goal of this paper is to get clear on the sense in which Davidson means the thesis that intentionality is inherently normative. The central goal of the paper i...

Some contemporary discussion about the explanation of consciousness substantially recapitulates a decisive debate about reference, knowledge, and justification from an earlier stage of the analytic tradition. In particular, I argue that proponents of a recently popular strategy for accounting for an explanatory gap between physical and phenomenal facts — the so-called ‘phenomenal concept strate...

Strong or Pure Intentionalism is the view that phenomenal character of a conscious experience exhaustively determined by its intentional content. Contrastingly, impure intentionalism holds there are also non content-based aspects features which contribute to character. Conscious attention one such feature: arguably contribution given not captured in terms what represents, properties object. Thi...